What a weird hill to die on

And also a complete PR fail. This is damaging their brand with devs for no meaningful benefit.

I didn't even see it was a brand blog. Sheesh

One thing people have pointed out is that well-specified (even if huge and tedious) projects are an ideal fit for AI, because the loop can be fully closed and it can test and verify the artifact by itself with certainty. Someone was saying they had it generate a rudimentary JS engine because the available test suite is so comprehensive

Not to invalidate this! But it's toward the "well-suited for AI" end of the spectrum

Yes - the gcc "torture test suite" that is mentioned must have been one of the enablers for this.

It's notable that the article says Claude was unable to build a working assembler (& linker), which is nominally a much simpler task than building a compiler. I wonder if this was at least in part due to not having a test suite, although it seems one could be auto generated during bootstrapping with gas (GNU assembler) by creating gas-generated (asm, ELF) pairs as the necessary test suite.

It does beg the question of how they got the compiler to point of correctness of generating a valid C -> asm mapping, before tackling the issue of gcc compatibility, since the generated code apparently has no relation to what gcc generates. I wonder which compilers' source code Claude has been trained on, and how closely this compiler's code generation and attempted optimizations compares to those?

i'm sure claude has been trained on every open source compiler

Very funny for this to come from the Warhammer studio, specifically

std::simd is so nice and easy to use, even as someone who's never done SIMD before. I wonder why it's stuck as nightly-only

I had something similar happen after sleeping a few times with my first-gen airpods pro. I think something must have gotten filled with earwax or something, because the noise cancelling got more and more broken and had more sudden sharp sounds until they were unusable

But since then I've had two pairs of airpods pro 2 and bought the 3s on the first day, and I've had no such issues with any of them, including sleeping, and flying twice with the 3's so far. YMMV

Super cool! I assume it plays nice with rust-analyzer?

I've heard that VSCode gets some special treatment and integrations with the typescript server that go deeper than normal LSP

To expand on this, the vscode editor can do a lot more than what is specified in LSP.

You can have custom functions in your language server that is not in spec and have your editor specific plugin call them.

I imagine there is a lot of this for typescript.

But I'm not sure if this can explain the speed difference..

I had the same experience and the same outcome. Zed was super fast for editing but slow for rich features, which on the net slowed me down compared with VSCode

Last week someone wrote a blog post saying "We dodged a bullet" because it was only a browser-based crypto wallet scrape

Guess we didn't dodge this one

We didn't really dodge a bullet. We put a bullet named 'node' in the cylinder of a revolver, spun it, pointed the gun at our head, and pulled the trigger. We just happened to be lucky enough that we got an empty chamber.

I honestly don't think this administration wants economic allies

1. Lose all the allies, become isolated.

2. Allies are less powerful, the world starts another world war

3. Get sneakily attacked

4. Win the war by entering when everyone is already spent out after fighting for several years.

5. Everyone likes USA because they helped.

6. Profit.

Looks like history is about to make another turn of the same wheel, but this time WW1 is Russia (+China) <-> Ukraine (+EU). Russia will be rebuilt by China and start another round to get back on EU.

This. Still it's not that simple anymore...

> 1. Lose all the allies, become isolated.

UK will stay. And 50%+ of Poles, maybe more. Also this time Sounth America won't allow isolation - a) they think promises from China are worth something; b) they may have hopes of looting richer lands, russian-wave style, streaight into bullet streams...

> 2. Allies are less powerful, the world starts another world war

Read: Germans explode again... And just looks like their rulers are owned by external enemies working on exactly that - in what other country womans can be mass ripped by some new arrivals ?? And gov just do censorship... Look like society preparation for unrest...

> 3. Get sneakily attacked

And make some dead americans by attacking something stupid ? Becose stories are important for top star generals...

Also "spinners" already started to be distibuted country wide...

And when Germans attacked Poland in '39 they had lists of "intelligence" - like teachers and priests and now we have social media...

> 4. Win the war by entering when everyone is already spent out after fighting for several years.

Only if US will NOT be attacked at the start...

> 5. Everyone likes USA because they helped.

Certainly not loosing side :)

> 6. Profit.

Yeah. If only US will be on winners side and not in bigger isolation.

But times changed. Nukes. Balistic missiles. Baloons with viruses. Rare earth metals are basic need. Termovision cameras on the ground and satelites (at least in first stage). Mr. Musk saying: Anywhere on Earth, 40 minutes, 9 million :)

And nukes again. Pretty much exclude all owners from bigger conflict...

And history learned - maybe official WW3 part will not pour out of Europe this time. But in this case it won't be a "world" war. Or maybe "war" will be somewhere else...

Except that this time, Trump's starting out by also wrecking the readiness of our military in a number of ways.

Make no mistake: This is not grand strategy. It's grandstanding. It's not part of some 5D chess plan. It's just Trump and his ilk being petty, racist bullies, trying desperately to show that they're "more manly" than anyone else.

If the threat comes to your shores, people will heroically start doing "the right thing after all other ways were exhausted". High wages for military factory workers will magically appear because they are heroes etc. Last time it took about 3 years to start mass-producing weapons, it will probably still take same amount this time, but it will be done.

It's fascistic nihilism. They want brown people out of the country and money in their own pockets. If their out group suffers, what does it matter? If the economy crashes, or US world standing falls, who cares? What use is American idealism anyway?

s/economic//g