(Ftr. the article doesn't have an opinion on whether Americans like AI, just my take.)

One might step back and ask: why would a well funded company with free mining access to all the information in the world need to be protected from the market, if the market suggest less money and resources are sufficient?

Something something cathedral / bazaar? Communism / capitalism? Control / anarchy?

If you want flexibility without fully transcoding both audio and video, Opus is your friend

But yeah, there is indeed some irony in the term "antisemitism" in the context you describe

Great on you, that's indeed how LLMs should be used, proper. But if anything, the article demonstrates someone is trying to outsource thinking to an AI agent.

But the GP point, that you're better off finding people that already, truly understand and are familiar with the tech (ie. Astro), imo still stands.

I recently ran a few Java benchmarks and found that an array holding a bunch of objects incurred approx 3x the number of bytes compared to the expected number based on underlying class data structure. With current RAM prices, that is something to consider if you're building software that's meant to scale. Mileage may vary, but I expect JavaScript or Python will be similar.

So, sure. There is a case to be made that ergonomics and dev velocity. And premature micro optimizations might take your focus away from good systems architecture. But I've frequently found the need to peal of leaky abstractions and having to understand and be savvy at low level stuff too. Nothing wrong with studying the guts of a C64 or Amiga, today.

Python, Java or TypeScript are good educational tools, but you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you'd confine yourself to them without understanding computers.

Many of C's UB is specifically, intentionally left undefined in the standard to express code that relies on some specific way it is handled, is not proper, portable C. Indeed, the DWORD-sized memory access being atomic doesn't apply to MS Windows prior to version 3.0 running on a 80286.

It's UB because the ISO C spec says it's UB.

And SAL annotations aren't even C++ proper.

Why not set up proper containers (or VMs) locally? And why not wait a little till local LLMs catch up?

Maybe just a personal itch, but having your dev environment elsewhere feels so gross to me..

Having been exposed to Java < 5 (before generics) Arrays felt somewhat like JavaScript or PHP3. It's a lot more ergonomic today.

But there are still many remnants (like null refs, despite Option<>) that are easiest understood by tracing back Java's historical roots.