60k rows of anything will be pulled into the file cache and do very little work on the drive. Possibly none after the first read.

That's fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not the bloated AI spyware box that they want.

I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn't an operating system/browser in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We've been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating us in that wrong direction.

If the person who put you in charge of it knew of your indifference, that's a smart manager, and you should just trust your gut on this.

You shouldn't have any warnings. They can be totally benign, but when you get used to seeing warnings, you will not see the one that does matter.

Easy win for companies that didn't buy into the hype. I'm the only dedicated software dev at my company, so there was no middle manager to foolishly think a chat bot could do my job. We are a small company that can compete with big players, and those big players appear to be floundering. Now, we are expanding.

To me, Microsoft's entire transition to web technologies is a self inflicted wound. Going native is a massive performance win. They already had that, and went the other way. Just, Why!? Now, Microsoft software is all big, bloated, and slow as fuck. Even the OS. They were literally bragging about a 9 second start up time after some optimizations to Teams. They don't even know what efficiency is anymore. We all essentially have super computers, now, but sure, congrats on your 9 second load time for a fuckin chat program.

I'll give you my vim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

https://filepilot.tech/

All coke's still image ads are AI now. Clearly AI and creepy as fuck.

Here's one off their site:

It just gives you the ick when you see it in public.

gcc main.c

- unity build gang

I think you're mistaking improvements in tooling as improvements in the LLMs. LLMs are plateauing. The idea of exponential growth is an illusion. We took 20+ year old technology, geared it toward text (the LLM), and trained it on the entire Internet. Then, it's popularity grew exponentially.

This is the hype narrative that Altman, Dario, Jensen, etc. push. They are trying to convince everyone that what we have is the Model T Ford of AI. Just imagine where we'll be in 6 months!

Hey! I know the guy working on this. Super cool, detail oriented guy.

Similar thought... If it was so revolutionary and innovative, I wouldn't have access to it. The AI companies would be keeping it to themselves. From a software perspective, they would be releasing their own operating systems and browsers and whatnot.

Heh, the red alert readme says it currently requires borland for the asm and watcom compiler for the c/c++.

100%. In my opinion, the whole "build your program around your model of the world" mantra has caused more harm than good. Lots of "best practices" seem to be accepted without any quantitative measurement to prove it's actually better. I want to think it's just the growing pains of a young field.

Also depends how hard the AI runs them. A good chunk of the graphics cards that were used as miners came out on life support if not completely toasted. Games generally don't run the piss out of them like that 24/7, and many games are still CPU bound.

I don't think you would get much traction on C developers' existing projects. C gives you the option to do everything your way. If the developer's paradigm doesn't agree with the borrow checker, it could become a rewrite anyway.

Most projects don't use the newer c standards. The language just doesn't change much, and C devs like that. This might get a better response from the modern C++ crowd, but then you are missing a large chunk of the world.

Meh. I had a bash job for 6 years. I couldn't forget it if I wanted to. I imagine most people don't use it enough for it to stick. You get good enough at it, and there's no need to reach for python.

Not before it wipes out windows.

And, you can have pointers to bits!