Omacom foundation is funding good open source dev work. I see nothing wrong with that, and their response was perfectly reasonable.

If you think you can do better, start a competing foundation. Whinging about it just makes you lose all objectivity; now your opinions on actual technology are less relevant as your personal bias is on full display.

Not something I need to maintain much going forward, so I have no reason to manage the code manually ever.

Was just testing latest gen LLM capabilities, and decided to give it goal of rewriting a small opensource project in Rust. (Should be noted: was not some tiny library, but an actually useful network service).

It completed the entire rewrite from typescript to rust in about 2 hours, ~600k tokens used. Worked perfectly on first try with no follow up changes required. Memory and CPU usage now a tiny fraction of TS version (obviously). Rust code was simple, easy to read, accurate test suite, etc.

I was pleasantly surprised.

Obviously bigger code bases with more complex business logic will likely struggle here, but there are some advantages to "RIIR" when performance matters, even security benefits aside. Rust can help squeeze more juice out of old hardware; reduced memory footprint especially helpful with current RAM prices.

For small services where operational cost matters, having LLMs "rewrite it in rust" might be worth the spend.

It’s a tool like any other. If that’s how they use it, those students weren’t doing much thinking before either.

I think pessimism clouds your judgment and AI is the scapegoat. Doomerism is just yet another dogmatic religion predicting ends times, with all the usual associated dogma.

What you imagine is what you manifest. Better to be optimistic and wrong then pessimistic and right.

Better to envision a positive future and help make it happen; ignore the doomers who can only envision destruction, as that is all they are capable of.

Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either.

Remember when people said open-sourcing GPT2 would cause world destruction? They keep saying this with every new model release? And it keeps not happening? Hmm.

This is all FUD. All evidence suggests more AI is better, and all claims to the contrary keep being proven wrong, and all predictions of doom keep refusing to manifest.

I rotate between major models frequently. Grok has been up there in accuracy and research for some time, trading places with Gemini IMO. Latest 4.3 release has been solid.

Composer is pretty good and now they own Cursor. Don’t count them out yet.

So.. it’s bad, compared to what? Claude from 2 months ago?

Few years ago I made a custom RGB LED rope light controller using ESP32 C3 DevKit and Rust embedded, connecting light to homeassistant via MQTT auto discovery. Was surprisingly easy to get started as someone who had limited experience with embedded programming, and only hobby Rust experience.

But the supported hardware in Rust crates was limited at the time and C3 dev kits weren’t widely available, so I never used it for anything. HAL support has only gotten better since then.

I may try to resurrect that project now with Pico 2 and Matter.

If it weren’t for recent cloudflare outages, never would have considered this was the problem.

Even until I saw this, I assumed it was an ISP issue, since Starlink still worked using 1.1.1.1. Now I’m thinking it’s a cloudflare routing problem?

A "bailout" is what happened in 2009, in the sense the banks would literally have collapsed without it (and they probably should have).

OpenAI is not going to collapse without these loans. Huge difference.

Also for the record, not rationalizing, because I'm not in favor of either handouts or bailouts.

Also clear that the 1.4T figure includes some accounting for spend that does not come directly from OpenAI (grid/power/data infra for example). Obviously some government involvement is needed, but more at EPA/State/Local level to fast track construction permits, more-so than financial help from Treasury.

I'm confused why this generates such sensational headlines.

Surprised to see Jack pushing code himself. Love to see it.