I understand the effort and it seems like a nice little language but wouldn't it make more sense to target already existing C--, QBE, LLVMIR or similar? There must be "simpler C" languages already which sounds more useful given that LLMs must've been trained on them.
You should give it a rewatch keeping in mind that it was financed by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. The message of the film comes across a bit differently in that light; much more libertarian/anti-government. Enjoyable film nonetheless!
Udemy figured out that selling to enterprise is way more profitable than individuals. Coursera figured out that University/Company brand is more valuable than Joe's Ultimate Course.
But in the last couple years both have been horribly run. Hopefully the AI threat lights a fire. I suspect a well designed course with some context engineering can become far better than ChatGPT by itself.
I think that window is closing pretty fast. Models can currently construct pretty good learning material by themselves. I setup a project using claude code as the agent that researches and constructs learning material and lessons.
The primary limitation right now is "time".. it takes time to do all the research, so it kind of has to be an async process.
It's a library design flaw. The agent SDKs focus on an "easy" high level API and hard code all its assumptions (AI SDK, LangGraph, etc). There's no lower level primitives to recompose when you discover your requirements are different than what the library author thought of.
So for now the choice is, "all in one for great prototypes and better hope it has everything you need" or roll your own.
If someone knows of a library that's good for quick prototypes and malleable for power users please share.
Agree, I find it a PITA. I think the good reviews are in contrast to C++ and vimscript. Fine for a small embedded script, but I hope WASM or some better language ecosystem starts to fill this niche.
The AI boom replaced the SaaS/Gig boom. We no longer have a dozen large caps in hyper growth at the same time and market conditions are less profligate so the hiring market is different https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Mm40
Gig work was yesterday's punching bag, but I guess we're nostalgic for it now.
> Overall, it feels like we’ve drifted past a point of no return
Saturday corporate card transactions for restaurant, delivery, and takeout by employees at San Francisco-based businesses are 0.4% more than last year.
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