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Yep, there's always syntax, whether it's 'friendly' or not.

And it still isn't natural language, where you can paraphrase, use synonyms etc. Good job for an LLM

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But are they writing? In that specific sense of high prestige communication? Sounds like stolen aura.

Now, code by Gen AI is straightforward in comparison. Coding is not writing poetry, even if the lines also don't reach the right margin

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"This post could have been a tweet", and so on.

It's a lovely metaphor for the soulful business of doing something really well, even if there is no 'market' for that kind of quality

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I've been getting great results from Codex. Can be a bit slow, but gets there. Writes good Rust, powers through integration test generation.

So (again) we are just sharing anecdata

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Heh,I read SF as San Francisco; point remains true. Except the Valley wants to force a future, not describe it

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It's not inconsistent to say there's a financial bubble and also genuinely think it's a new era for software development.

There aren't enough programmers to justify the valuations and capex

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These are a few well-chosen dependencies for a serious project.

Rust projects can really go bananas on dependencies, partly because it's so easy to include them