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Comment · 1 day ago
How long do you think that is going to last?
Comment · 3 days ago
Maybe Python isn’t a language for when performance is a big concern (at least in the user code) and that’s OK?
Comment · 3 days ago
Why did they call it “humanities last exam”?

Will an LLM topping this bench be the end of humanity? The doomer rhetoric has no place in what should be an objective measure.

Comment · 4 days ago
Yeah why?

I bounce between codex and cc all the time. There is no moat there.

Comment · 5 days ago
Of course they compete with each other. Codex and Claude Code have direct feature overlap.

But they do have a common enemy in open weight models.

Comment · 6 days ago
For some categories of mistake, yes.
Comment · 7 days ago
Yes maybe the long term impact will be there won’t be a technology sector (at least not so dominant as it is now). Instead companies in other industries will have larger technology functions with teams of agents.
Comment · 17 days ago
It’s a shame.

Rust compile times are an issue for agent throughput.

C# can approach Rust speeds with some effort, but generally has faster compile times and is less verbose.

Comment · 19 days ago
This is covered in the post.
Comment · 24 days ago
When you hand code you build an incremental understanding of how the code works. This can be very valuable in cases where precision is needed and change is costly.

The skill of using LLMs for code generation is in recognising these scenarios; knowing when to use it and when to not.

Comment · 26 days ago
Back then we couldn’t imagine something that could do all of those things and yet not feel intelligent or human.
Comment · 27 days ago
There will come a point where the local models are good enough (and iPhones powerful enough) for this to be possible without privacy downsides.
Comment · 1 month ago
The Dutch are masters at making high density places liveable.
Comment · 1 month ago
Is a Go channel equivalent to a Haskell tvar ?
Comment · 1 month ago
Currencies are established by force (taxation backed by militaries and police)

Sure, the government could force a format change if they really want to.

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