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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh my bad - glad it seems like he took your advice then

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Which in Dune is just a fictional version of the real concept from the real world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

en.wikipedia.org

List of noble houses - Wikipedia

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another great day on Bluesky, the Reading Comprehension App

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree, that would be crazy to say! I suppose it’s a good thing nobody said that then?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s 50k lines over 334 files. Also, modern coding editors can handle a 50k line source file easily.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

High-quality novel content out of an LLM is certainly rare, but I think it’s been demonstrated. And I think having an LLM develop that novel content works better when you have narrow, measurable acceptance criteria to allow iteration bsky.app/profile/boot...

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now you’ve got me thinking of examples to support your argument :) one “low-level” task that I find agents to be really bad at is writing basically any kind of code comments. I’m not familiar enough with the tech to know the probability that this will be improved

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hmm, interesting. The heuristic that I’ve developed is that they do well when a problem has a narrow, clearly defined scope and clear feedback of results to allow for iteration, both of which apply much more to algorithm design than system design.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe it will in the future but I don’t see any strong reason to predict one way or the other

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s hard to quantify the relative difficulty of these tasks, but of course they require very different sets of skills. And empirically, anyone who has used agents significantly can tell you that right now they are much better at one than the other. So I don’t think it reduces to your two options

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is actually a vast difference between those two things.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you say “specs are now source” and also “the specs of tomorrow will look like the code of today,” then you’re not actually saying anything are you?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Agree conceptually, and I’m ready to have my mind opened, but I haven’t seen someone present a vision of how this will actually work without running into the “a sufficiently detailed spec is code” trap.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interestingly, Anthropic does not appear to be on this page as of today. Mysteriously disappeared in the past 3 days?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah, I just mean like, from a philosophical perspective

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How come nobody lost their shit when neural nets demonstrated the ability to recognize images 15 years ago? Is that not reasoning? What’s so special about natural language?

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 07/09/2026

Seeing a lot of dev-on-dev harassment has got me thinking about what open software development feels like nowadays.

notes.erlend.sh

Making software hurts now

and hurt people hurt people

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The reason AI tools have taken over the software engineering industry is the same reason hobbyist coders also like using them: because they’re useful. It’s pretty simple

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sidenote to this well-stated point: it’s kind of insane that we do things this way, at least for non-live stuff. I’ll support any politician who proposes regulation such that all digital media is available for purchase and permanent DRM-free download for a reasonable price.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Anyone else excited for GTA 6? …got it, reading the room

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey man just curious if you’re aware that the way you talk is incredibly annoying?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yeah that’s my take as well. And like, vibe coding as a learning exercise could potentially teach you how to specify well, but probably not much else

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What’s your take on how closely a student should review and try to understand the code that the tools generate?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I agree with your original post though FWIW, I think it should take a lot to revoke someone’s drivers license in places where good alternatives aren’t available

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I imagine people reject a conclusion like this because it’s kinda defeatist! Hard not to read it as “better things aren’t possible.” Meanwhile in my local urbanist advocacy groups, small, concrete wins are being chalked up every month 🤷‍♂️

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Do you agree that the impact of car brain on US cities is a huge problem and that solutions need to be found? If not, there’s not much point in continuing here. If so, what are your preferred solutions?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For example, there are many public transit improvements that can be done cheaply in almost any city that can enable more people to drive less (more and more frequent bus routes, BRT, etc).

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s silly to suggest that we’ll fix things by having everyone ride bikes, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that cars cause a huge amount of societal harm and there are lots of ways that harm can be reduced without suspending drivers licenses

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the discourse is dominated by people outside the US?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What I mean is, then who is jumping into the discourse who isn’t aware of this? If you assume discourse doers are a reflection of the population as a whole, most of them live somewhere that it’s not possible to live car-free and therefore must be aware of this. I suppose you could mean that

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There’s like 3 cities in the US where living car free is even a viable option, so I’m not really sure the statistics check out on your claim here

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Does not having a job reflect poorly on somebody?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A palate cleanser to finish off this thought.

xkcd comic, a stick figure sits at a computer

“Are you coming to bed?”
“I can’t. This is important.”
“What?”
“Someone is WRONG on the internet.”

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I think that constantly aligning yourself against skeptics, even if they are wrong, slowly changes the way you think. It makes you more sympathetic to boosters and less sympathetic to skeptics. And that’s bad, because the boosters are aligned with all of the worst forces in our society right now.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

People are wrong on the internet constantly. You notice it more when you are an SME in what they are wrong about, but it’s a never-ending tide. I propose that if you think we need a better class of skeptic, YOU are best positioned to BE that skeptic, not complain about their absence.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Here’s the problem I have with this: the people boosting AI have all the power, and the skeptics have none. That you are choosing to spend so much of your time debating skeptics tells me that you are more interested in being right on the internet than in critiquing those with power and agency.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe you’re worried about the long-term psychological effects of interacting with LLMs, or their troubling implications for education. But you don’t express these opinions very often. You’re much more often seen arguing with skeptics, correcting them on their facts.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe your own skepticism is that a handful of dumbass oligarchs like Sam Altman currently have dictatorial power over how the tech is deployed and that it is completely unregulated. Maybe you look forward to a future where AI is more democratized and everyone can realize its benefits.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you’re posting takes like this, maybe you’re pretty informed about LLMs. Maybe you work in tech, or academia, or another field where they have shown early success. Your objective info about what AI can do is largely correct. And yes: much of the skepticism on this website is quite misinformed.

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There’s a certain recurring AI take on this website that I find quite tiresome. It goes like this: “much cause for concern with current AI trends, but none of the skeptics I see have their facts straight! I’m forced to argue against them instead of expressing my own, well-founded skepticism!” 🧵

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I thought this was a joke post for a minute. Nobody is forcing you to argue against them just by having bad takes, nor is anyone preventing you from expressing skepticism precisely the way you want to!

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Honestly I think looking to science for big success stories is correct because the average scientist is probably much more likely to use the tools with thoughtfulness and rigor than the average software engineer

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

IMO this thread is mostly spot on except that I would not hold my breath for “high levels of polish” in consumer apps anytime soon

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What’s wrong with drawing the line at personhood - why does that make the case not “pure”?

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Born to Rust, forced to C++ @bootress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No, because unlike speed cameras, they link into a mass surveillance network. This is really not that hard to understand

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