prxm · HackerTrans

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

This is one of my favourite activites with LLMs as well. After implementing some sort of idea for an algorithm, I try seeing what an LLM would come up with. I hint it as well and push it in the correct direction with many iterations but never tell the most ideal one. And as a matter of fact they can never reach the quality I did with my initial implementation.

prxm

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

> Zig is explicit

i never got this point. whats stopping me from writing a function like this in zig?

  fn very_bad_func() !i32 {
      var GPA = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){};
      var gpa = GPA.allocator();
      var s = try gpa.alloc(i32, 1000);
      s[0] = 7;
      return s[0];
  }

the only thing explicit about zig approach is having ready-to-use allocator definitons in the std library. if you excluded std library and write your own allocators, you could have an even better api in rust compared to zig thanks to actual shared behaviour features (traits). explicit allocation is a library feature, not a language feature.

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