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New comment by bdelmas in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

bdelmas — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:15:12 +0000

No rule makers. Players are not the one making the rules of a game. They just play it.

New comment by bdelmas in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

bdelmas — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:08:33 +0000

It’s not the players we should hate but the ones who make the rules of the game. Specifically not the ones who make the rules for the greater good but for themselves.

New comment by bdelmas in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

bdelmas — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:46:47 +0000

I would too and I have declined jobs everywhere they used their tech and it was not because they had to. And even then, unless it’s like Google and such I am very reluctant.

No thanks!

New comment by bdelmas in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

bdelmas — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:42:23 +0000

Someone got a lot of those kickbacks…

New comment by bdelmas in "Claude Opus 5"

bdelmas — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:10:22 +0000

Its not fair to say this when we have been chanting how "software is eating the world", or how much we love to "disrupt markets", that we won’t create mass unemployments with our technologies but that "people will transition elsewhere like we always saw", etc etc.. It’s our turn to have our jobs disrupted and now we are surprised? Come on. We don’t have to like but we are the last people who should be surprised. It’s our turn to transition and be prompt writers and do product I guess. Until this is disrupted again in a few years.

Hard truth but true nonetheless. How come we should have it both ways? We removed certain jobs, it’s our turn to have many types of jobs disrupted and have to transition.

New comment by bdelmas in "Fable extended until 19 July"

bdelmas — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:45:28 +0000

I still have no idea if they really want to make Fable usable in a plan in the future or not. They said it's their goal but here they still double down that it will be out of plans, period.

New comment by bdelmas in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

bdelmas — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:21:02 +0000

Or exactly as planned.

New comment by bdelmas in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

bdelmas — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:49:02 +0000

I actually had a lot of problems with software cult followers of influencer gurus like ThePrimeagen, Lex Fridman, Theo, etc... Those are so worst. You can't resonate with them.

New comment by bdelmas in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

bdelmas — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:41:45 +0000

UE 5 doesn’t come with a scripting language even though there is blueprints which a node editor easy enough to be used by non dev. Studios like embark (The Finals, ARC Raiders) have been successful integrated AngelScript in UE 5 and use it in these games. UE 6 will see the appearance of Verse: the scripting language used for Fortnite (and the end of blueprint at some point). At first I was sad to see yet another language but it is worth looking at the doc to see why and how it makes a lot of sense.

New comment by bdelmas in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

bdelmas — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:35:20 +0000

It’s only a question of time. I think right now 60% of AI paper published is from China. They are already the bests at cost optimization

New comment by bdelmas in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

bdelmas — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:33:53 +0000

I wonder if they are not just gonna wait that GPT-5.6 is released before doing any move.

New comment by bdelmas in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

bdelmas — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:27:41 +0000

I was planning on using it all until today so I burned quite a lot yesterday.

New comment by bdelmas in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

bdelmas — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:24:35 +0000

You unplug yourself from media and social media. And maybe open the news paper of your town if you want to spice up your life. The rest you will probably hear all about it anyway from families or colleagues if it’s something big. We are in the era of over connections. We need to know how to unplug. It doesn’t have to be as extreme as u said but if someone is as much as affected like this, this person definitely needs a huge break.

For ICE it’s kinda a big stretch can we agree? And in this case the person does have control. This person does have agency over the issue and should regularize their situation as soon as possible.

New comment by bdelmas in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

bdelmas — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:51:56 +0000

It’s more a question of knowing when to unplug yourself on things that are affecting you but that you cannot control. From government news to something bad happening miles from you. These news can affect you but you have no control over the situation. Not doing so is actually one way to get depression.

New comment by bdelmas in "Can you see three trees?"

bdelmas — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:14:23 +0000

I would have like to see the map of cities that matches this 3-30-300 rule.

New comment by bdelmas in "C++: The Documentary"

bdelmas — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:43:23 +0000

I agree for the comparison.

Now for Rust I don’t think it is going to change a lot. Because it is based on ML, it has the best foundations and all features are known. The question is more how much Haskell vs script/imperative do you want your language to be, and what’s the purpose of the language rather than we had the wrong paradigm and found a new better one. For Rust 99% of its features are known and most are already implemented.

Maybe things around the borrow checker, and await, but beyond that nothing as much as what C++ saw in its history. Even more when for instance you see the article from the guy doing Gleam where traits (impl) are not necessary, all you need is data and function to have the same functionality. Or how ML have been the main factor to most new languages or new features to existing languages.

The future is ML, with languages dedicated to specific use cases and niches. And also ML languages easily readable by AI.

New comment by bdelmas in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

bdelmas — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:12:51 +0000

As of today they can't. You have to tell them what the new API looks like, which new classes they have to create and describe them in detail, etc... You have new projects that try to add good practices in the prompt [0] or audit your code once in a while [1] but it's not enough.

Right now they can be autonomous to finding bugs and inconsistencies. But not architecture or even just creating a long enough PR without any guidance and feedback.

[0] https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/carl

[1] https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/aegis

New comment by bdelmas in "Ferrari Luce"

bdelmas — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:16:36 +0000

For sure this have been greenlighted all the way up to CEO so…

New comment by bdelmas in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

bdelmas — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:22:38 +0000

Fuzzing can help with that. But it’s not only applicable to Rust.

For Actix web he was using “unsafe” to increase performance. That doesn’t mean the code written was unsafe… The Rust community was turning to a cult on this topic when perfectly experienced C++ can write code would need the unsafe in Rust when they perfectly know the code isn’t. It’s good for the community to push people to avoid to use unsafe but not to that extend of drama and bullying…

New comment by bdelmas in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

bdelmas — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:06:22 +0000

This! I now have to fight bad tech decisions at my companies because many devs follow influencers.

Look also at the hate spread against UE5… It’s everywhere and half of the arguments are falsehoods made by influencers with no real experience in the industry…