Why do you care so much to write a blog post? Like if it's such a big advantage, why not stay quiet and exploit it? Why not make Anti-AI blog posts to gain even more of an advantage?
One of the big red flags I see around the pro-AI side is this constant desire to promote the technology. At least the anti-ai side is reactionary.
This isn't sabotaging AI research, it's sabotaging companies who scrape information indiscriminately from the internet to power their LLM-as-a-service business. AI is far more than just OpenAI and Anthropic...
I hate to say it, but this probably would not have happened in a garbage collected language.
GC languages are fast these days. If you don't want a runtime like C# (which has excellent performance) a language like Go would have worked just fine here, compiling to a small native binary but with a GC.
I don't really understand the aversion to GC's. In memory constrained scenarios or where performance is an absolute top priority, I understand wanting manual control. But that seems like a very rare scenario in user space.
Last time I tried Linux I was so done with Windows I installed Arch. Couldn't connect to Wifi. I figured it was Arch, so I installed Ubuntu. Literally the same problem. So I got a new USB wifi adaptor that said it supported Linux...same problem. I gave up and have been using a MacBook ever since lol.
I was wondering why stuff was written in JS in the past - it seems obvious to use a faster language for these tools, but I then realised that these massive sprawling Typescript codebases are a modern phenomena. I sort of wonder if the tooling is just step one, and step two is not just the tooling but the other codebases going from TS to a faster lang (like Go).
Speaking of Go, Esbuild is amazing. You can write entire dev servers and build pipelines in a couple hundred lines of Go, with hot reloading etc. Full control over your build process, plugins are compiled with the builder so you don't pay the JS -> Go cost, it's really great stuff. I love Esbuild, thank you Evan :)