Um, yes? It's bad enough humans are murdering each other. At least a human can in theory be held accountable for pulling the trigger. The last thing we need is an unaccountable ralph loop reasoning about which schools and churches to bomb every time it wakes up.

> if it had a better llm underpinning it

Ah yes, the "LLMs are intelligent, you're just not using the newest fanciest model" fallacy. This time with innocent lives on the line. If only we used ChatGPT-8.9 instead of 8.8, those poor kids would still be alive today.

To continue your analogy, that would be like if Gmail got rid of spam filters, and then told people to stop complaining endlessly and manually copy every email they get into SpamGPT to ask if it's spam or not.

> You should add more AI to your life

I hope you can see how this is not a useful suggestion.

Of course. Do you think this was on purpose? All part of Apple's brilliant master plan?

https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-intern...

Did you expect comedy specials to be an exception to this?

I look forward to your weather report too: "It's always sunny outside until one day it starts raining. Every time."

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/C4TwDgpgBAcg9gOwK...

Imagine your fiance of 5 years is vegan, and asks you not to put mayo in her food. You sneak it into her food anyway and write a blog post about it. You can tell her all the excuses you want:

- 90% of the world eats animal products daily

- I spent 300+ hours of work finding the best mayo

- I could have kept sneaking slop into your food and not disclosed it

But at the end of the day you're still ignoring her wishes. You can go ahead and keep building this labyrinth of reasoning for yourself, where you're right and everyone else in the world is wrong. And you'll end up dumped with nobody wanting to collaborate with you, talking to ChatGPT late at night who tells you "you're absolutely right, you're a brilliant coder, you deserve better than her!"

People are weird. People plant their gardens their own way. Some like ketchup instead of mayo. Some don't want want AI slop in their codebase. Nobody's stopping you from using your patches privately on your own computer. But if you seek the social validation of having them accepted upstream, you have to learn to respect the people around you.

"My patch got rejected because I was honest"

"My girlfriend broke up with me because I was honest"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nx0r-_DuDek

I encourage the author to do a bit more self-reflection.

Before Zig hits 1.0, users should expect language changes. Has anyone claimed otherwise?

If you need the old thing often enough, you can write a wrapper for it. It's a trivial one-liner, as you've shown.

> You could use it to define a function that implements bitCast. Which defeats the purpose of having any @bitCast intrinsic

Yes, and this is one reason @bitCast was changed to have different semantics that are not trivially achieved with @ptrCast.

I was talking about GP's u729, which is 9*9*9, the state space of a sudoku board. Can you come up with a situation where dividing that number by anything is meaningful?

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.bit_set.St...

Since you dodged the question, I guess your real answer is "no, people never did this" and therefore "yes, this is AI slop"