My honest, biggest, fear is that AI coding does not, in the long run, drive up bugs and security issues. That is the only tangible piece of data we have to point to as a counter argument to this tool. If not for that businesses will not care about consistency, only that the agents can read and understand it.

If I was a betting man I would say that security engineering is going to see a spike in demand in the next few years as a by-product of this.

But that’s probably cope.

Recommend any good pods?

I saw it, I was excited, then the disappointment hit me.

One day a human will make something like this and I can use it.

I think the author gestures at a pretty solid argument that most of the “mechanical” arguments for LLM capabilities have a clear trend line towards “can do thing”.

Strictly speaking, the job he’s describing even falls into that category, there’s just not a lot of training data for it.

Anecdotally this has matched what I’ve seen. Which is unfortunate because the part of tech I like the least, regarding software development, is when the thing that was built was actually used for anything.

I got into this specifically, and exclusively, for the craft. I don’t like making other’s lives " better", I don’t like “solving problems”, I don’t like the customer. But here we are staring down the barrel of a career making “products”.

Guix.

Try Guix. It’s great.

Absolutely goated. There’s just something about it that feels good. I think it’s the fact the it feels a bit like writing Unix pipelines but in reverse. You can visualize data move through your program like pipes.

I too am interested in this. I work at a sort of intersection between traditional backend systems and industrial controls so I see a lot of Java/C# and a lot of Ladder Logic and SFC.

SFC in particular is as close to visual programming as I’ve seen be feasible and one can accomplish quite a bit with it.

I wonder how feasible it would be to develop a visual programming language that worked a bit like stringing together blocks that worked like pure functions where each block was, internally, just a function written in some language. Like some unholy marriage of SFC and Scratch.

PS: What keyboard are you using for the Thorpe character?

Well you learn a new thing everyday. Looks like guix import would make building packages easier. This is a bit more a question about bridging the gap between how Go want’s to handle its packages and how Guix wants to.

The ideal would be a setup that would allow me to declare a shell with a manifest and have it generate a go.mod out of the manifest in the process.

Appreciate the reply!

Do report back! Tinkering with the initramfs has been on my todo list for a bit and I haven’t seen a whole lot of content online talking about it.