This test is nice because, as it's numeric, you can vary it slightly and test it easily across multiple APIs.

I believe I first saw this prompt in that paper two years ago that tested many AI models and found them all wanting.

(If you're just making a simple rest api backend, I still dig the simplicity of poem-openapi + sqlx)

I can't understand if rust on rails is a joke, badly written by gpt, or written by someone who doesn't understand both Rust and web development in general. It's full of typos and baffling design decisions. (shelling out to an external comand to generate rust code?! MACROS EXIST!)

I use html-node which has a typed submodule for even greater strictness. I just build some valid html, make a string and write that to the output directory and get on with my life. Eg: https://github.com/0atman/noboilerplate/

Templates... Rust functions

Flow control... Rust match expression

Abstraction... Rust modules

Html validation... Rust compiler

I like to think that in writing the html-node crate, Vidhan taught the compiler to speak html! https://lib.rs/crates/html-node

Making queries like this checks the sql is valid at compile time by connecting to the real database and running it with demo data inside a rolled-back transaction!

(If you'll forgive the self promo, I explained it better in this video https://youtu.be/pocWrUj68tU)

Rust's macro system allows you to program the compiler with each new program, and sqlx is my favourite example of this.

Insane.

You've forced me to look up the talk, and the one I have the ticket for in my email is actually from 2011, my memory of the date was wrong: https://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=bc7fd2

Someone took a terrible video of it (ah 2011 video) here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vazlMe7sNzM but that doesn't seem to include the Q&A section where he went off the rails.

No developers were persuaded to change their language from 'open source' to 'free software' that day in 2009, him shouting at us was utterly ineffective.

We need good communicators, not just passionate people. I'm not suggesting he shouldn't write his good ideas down, but keep him away from an AUDIENCE.

He screamed at people for using 'open source' instead of 'free software' in their questions, raved about the Amazon "Swindle" like a 12-year-old, and talked over and down to everyone. He was often accurate in the core of what he was trying to say, but his attitude was unhinged, and discouraged most people from interacting.

The 100 or so developers all left the talk in silence, mourning the loss of the hero we had imagined him to be.

To those who say we need him for GNU outreach: we absolutely don't. ANYONE would be better for the job.

I thank him for his many incredible contributions to our world, and wish him a speedy recovery, but we don't need these talented assholes to represent our community.