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lgrapenthin
·14 jam yang lalu·discuss
tldr; they decided to sacrifice quality for quantity via outsourcing their programming, and find Python more suitable for this.

Which it always has been, whether outsourcing to cheap "talent" overseas, or now a subscription service text generator.
lgrapenthin
·14 hari yang lalu·discuss
Not a day passes with my LLM of choice making completely baseless claims about "many people", who supposedly share all my problems and solve them like the LLM proposes
lgrapenthin
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
"Here is the X part", a commonly generated attention catcher these days, combined with an expert level fact, compacted into casual tone. Note it does not state opinion or reports subjective experience, which alltogether makes it a somewhat unfailable "Did you know?" addition. It is easy to mass generate such commentary and you can frequently find it on Twitter, too.

I find it hard to believe that a human would after reading this article make the stated observation, and then write this exact comment.
lgrapenthin
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
did you generate this comment?
lgrapenthin
·bulan lalu·discuss
"As a rule of thumb, if your application never has 10,000 virtual threads or more, it is unlikely to benefit from virtual threads."

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/virtual-threa...
lgrapenthin
·bulan lalu·discuss
Clojure is about its rigorous and pragmatic "immutability first" paradigm that you simply don't get from other PLs.

LISP is much more than just a runtime syntax, such as its distinct evaluation model and metalinguistic core.

The JVM was chosen for Clojure because of its reach and vast ecosystem. People have ported Clojure to other runtimes, even Beam (Clojerl), where it enjoys decent success, too.
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Why does this read like written by AI?
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What you are describing is exactly a security implication.
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Might be some personal beef, but I don't know really and don't care enough. He makes these authorative claims mixed with personal sentiment and then doesn't back them up.

Here for instance the core team supposedly has "lost control of the compiler" https://x.com/dustingetz/status/1947643515480965346

Work on the compiler had been pushed a month earlier https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/6a3e0f02c6a96fcef2...
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Of course calling out baseless FUD is helpful. Otherwise it just discourages people from engaging with Clojure, which is not helpful.
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There is no falling apart. This guy just tries to spread this narrative every two months or so, idky. Check out latest dev call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyvDkZA3o0
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Indeed. Generated code is also harder to read because it violates all semantic expectations that rely on the mental model of a human author. A generated piece of code is linguistically plausible but often unknowingly imitates common idioms so incoherently that the actual bug may be accidentally disguised in a way no sane human (even a bad programmer) could have come up with.

Since LLMs have no internal evaluation, as a reviewer one has to account for it and evaluate line by line, rebuild from scratch any hidden rationale and tacit knowledge the LLM didn't have in the first place - only to be mislead into non concerns draining costly hours.

At this point, the investment is often deeper than writing from scratch.
lgrapenthin
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
In Clojure

    true: true
    false: false
    null: nil
    []: []
    {}: {}
lgrapenthin
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
They are just trying to peddle their "It's alive" headlines.

Text generators mostly generate the text their are trained and asked to generate, and asking it to run a vending machine, having it write blog posts under fictional living computer identity, or now calling it "Mythos" - its all just marketing.
lgrapenthin
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Assuming that everybody disagreeing with such takes simply can't have tried the latest generator is quite telling. Consider, that maybe, I'm not as easily impressed?
lgrapenthin
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
My hammer is also solving problems. Still, hammering is not programming. LLMs are text generators.
lgrapenthin
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
You are comparing a PL to a text generator. What are you on?
lgrapenthin
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The negativity is driven by outrageous claims how AIs will replace programmers, or how english is the PL of the future. T
lgrapenthin
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Its generating an approximation of what it was trained on. Call it whatever you want, just not AGI or the road to AGI.
lgrapenthin
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
How brave of you