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New comment by mountainriver in "The Eternal Sloptember"

mountainriver — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:36:59 +0000

My guess is the models just continue to get better and better

When I got into agentic coding a year or two ago I was sure it was only good at autocomplete. Something happened earlier this year where the models hit a new level of capability.

Everyone I know now just does agentic coding, and it’s really amazing. I think we should just try pushing this as far as we can possibly go, it really feels like the acceleration of the human race is upon us.

New comment by mountainriver in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

mountainriver — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:17:27 +0000

I love Go and used to write it heavily for anything non LLM based.

Now that we have agentic coding I just write everything in Rust and couldn’t be happier. The struggle with rust was writing it, go was made so it was easy to write for mid level engineers. Now that we have agentic coding I’m not sure Go’s value prop holds up anymore

My rust services have been nothing short of amazing from a performance and reliability perspective

New comment by mountainriver in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

mountainriver — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:58:14 +0000

Running LLMs on Macs is still terribly slow. They simply lack the optimizations other platforms have.

An RTX 6000 pro Blackwell is a pretty good card

New comment by mountainriver in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

mountainriver — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:58:18 +0000

Same, I’m not sure how Python survives this outside of machine learning.

All of our services we were our are significantly faster and more reliable. We used Rust, it wasn’t hard to do

New comment by mountainriver in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

mountainriver — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:19:49 +0000

I’ve been writing almost exclusively Rust with LLMs and rarely ever hit this. I guess maybe the kind of work you are doing?

New comment by mountainriver in "Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]"

mountainriver — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:42:18 +0000

What is this comment? It’s an RL paper, these are standard RL terms

New comment by mountainriver in "ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board"

mountainriver — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:34:47 +0000

Anything less than a 32 channel system is mostly a toy. You can stack them but synchronizing the clocks is hard

New comment by mountainriver in "Can a Language Model Paint?"

mountainriver — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:45:38 +0000

Very cool! I’ve been trying this quite a bit too

New comment by mountainriver in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

mountainriver — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:44:53 +0000

I’ve heard this is apparently less about morality and more about payments getting contested by men getting caught by their spouses

New comment by mountainriver in "Googlebook"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:19:01 +0000

Put a TPU in this and I’ll buy it!

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:15:19 +0000

or the language was fundamentally designed to make mid level engineers more productive...

New comment by mountainriver in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:07:15 +0000

Writing machine learning kernels. Writing low level geometry libraries. Writing compilers...

New comment by mountainriver in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:06:46 +0000

Certainly not back to hand crafted code unless you want to be left in the dust

New comment by mountainriver in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:05:51 +0000

>When a competent programmer is writing the code, the human written code tends to be higher quality too

This is a great idea, but on average is deeply untrue. Far and away most programmers today write significantly worse code than LLMs. Also LLMs are fantastic at generating high level summaries and comments in code

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:02:53 +0000

uh huh, how's the trampoline working out?

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:20:12 +0000

This is it

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:19:35 +0000

Have you tried writing Rust? I often hear this from people who haven’t tried it. I’ve found absolutely no issues over python and everything works 100x better

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:17:28 +0000

I think the only use cases are when it wraps low level C++ libs like ML libraries, and yes those are extremely difficult to reproduce

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:16:19 +0000

I loved from writing all my code with LLMs from Python to Rust. I’ve seen absolutely no difference, most of the time I couldn’t even tell you which it’s writing in.

My programs are faster and more reliable than they’ve ever been.

New comment by mountainriver in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

mountainriver — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:14:11 +0000

Why? Go has a GC, is basically incompatible with C and very limited overall