This is exactly right. Architecture -- in fact, using any kind of abstractions at all -- is basically a crutch that humans use to make ourselves more effective in implementing and evolving code over time, usually by either compressing the problem domain so that we can pack more of it into our limited brains, or making our own mistakes visible early. It's extremely valuable for humans who need to work on complex systems -- but it might simply be unnecessary overhead for entities with significantly more working memory, just as humans won't plan out a class hierarchy for a 5-line script, much less write a PRD.
Yes, directly emitting binaries will likely become practical at some point if LLM context lengths continue to increase. We may be there already for small programs, I don't know.
As with eliminating other forms of abstraction, there's not much gain from doing so. Writing source code and then compiling it offers many useful checks, and greatly simplifies making changes. It's just something that may no longer be necessary at some point.
The boringsql article was very informative, if you can get past some flourishes typical of a coauthor we all know:
> That's the honest shape of the mitigation: HOT is opportunistic, arrives in steady state rather than on demand, and quietly costs you 30% of your table size in reserved space.
I think this is the important question. To everyone who is complaining while using Ubuntu for free: People whose software you use for free don't owe you anything.
Of course they don't owe them anything. Ubuntu's reputation is built primarily on people who use it (or used to) for free. They are/were Ubuntu's advocates and what made it popular.
So just as they made it popular, they can make it unpopular. People like me will simply post on our blogs and social media that they should not install Ubuntu. A typical Ubuntu user is not that high on the tech scale, and they listen to people like me for suggestions on which distro.
I agree. With that said, I don't have a problem with this motivation. With that said, it would however have been even better overall to have made this a credible threat used to keep the original developers in their original jobs. As it stands, it's basically Mutually Assured Destruction after one side already pushed the button.
This logic doesn't work here, because it relies on the premise that you alone potentially have an unreleased zero-day exploit, which is not the case.
If prompting an AI could exploit this for less than $500 in token spend, then you should immediately do so, since if you don't, in a few minutes' time someone else will.
They aren't at all the same thing, but at a high level they both reduce the amount of fragile/tedious setup-specific futzing you need to do to get a few basic services up.
> What modern production calls “correction,” and mistakes for care, is really a form of epistemic violence
I'm so tired of people reaching for the emotional impact of the word "violence" in contexts that are far removed from its actual meaning -- and this context is about the furthest removed I've seen to date.
> If we cannot hear and feel coordinated human time, we cannot learn the forms of felt life that make mutual recognition possible.
I actually laughed out loud.
Remember folks, "punching in" is Okay. Gridifying is Not Okay. Because ________, obviously.
I often find it helpful to type comments (starting with a # character) directly in a shell session, to remind myself where I'm up to, what I need to do next, or what I've just done. Especially handy at the end of the day or when switching context to something else.
> the AfD doesn't even pretend to care about normal people.
It explicitly cares about people who identify as traditional Germans, who in their own eyes are "the normal people".
On the economic side, Gemini tells me that they favour deregulation, smaller government, and reducing bureaucracy for small and medium-sized enterprises (Mittelstand). They also want to increase family support payments to incentivise having children. These are all economic policies that make sense to conservative-minded "normal people".
Deregulation, smaller government, and reducing bureaucracy aren't conservative values. Any conservative that believes that has been duped into libertarian capitalism.
> Deregulation, smaller government, and reducing bureaucracy aren't conservative values.
They're fiscally conservative values, as you likely already know. Social and fiscal conservatism are correlated, as you likely also already know.
In order for you to make this statement, you had to take a word ("conservative") that can be interpreted in one of two well-known ways ("social conservative", "fiscal conservative"), and pretend that when I used that word, I must have meant the way that doesn't make sense, instead of the way that obviously does.
Sure, fair enough, but in my defense, "conservative" used to mean fiscal conservativism is a very American concept. I wouldn't say 'conservative-minded "normal people"' in a discussion about the AfD necessarily or obviously invokes the idea of fiscal conservativism.
AI has already made mathematics better in the sense that it has greatly advanced what we know to be true (theorems).
The only way that it hasn't made mathematics better is in the sense of human mathematicians' career prospects -- and in this respect, it is identical to other forms of automation that the world, and especially computer programmers like us, have participated in in the past without complaint.
It's "worse for humans" in exactly the same way that first the Industrial Revolution and later computer programming made things "worse for humans", but the post you're referring to only notices that it's "worse" when they are the victim.
I agree with this actually. All of these things were good for some and bad for some, and these groups overlapped. All were good for (most) humans-as-consumers, and bad for (some) humans-as-producers, and the IR was also bad for horses.
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