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biorach commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw

sigmoid10 · 8 days ago

Anthropic is in a bit of a rough spot if you look at the raw data points we have available. Their valuation is in the same order of magnitude as OpenAI, but they have orders of magnitude fewer users. And current leaderboards for famous unsolved benchmarks like ARC AGI and HLE are also dominated by Google and OpenAI. Announcements like the one you linked are the only way for Anthropic to stay in the news cycle and justify its valuation to investors. Their IPO rumours are yet another example of this. But I really wonder how long that strategy can keep working.

biorach · 8 days ago

> Their valuation is in the same order of magnitude as OpenAI, but they have orders of magnitude fewer users.

it's an open question how many of OpenAI's users are monetizable.

There's an argument to be made that your brand being what the general public identifies with AI is a medium term liability in light of the vast capital and operating costs involved.

It may well be that Anthropic focusing on an order of magnitudes smaller, but immediately monetiazable market will play out better.

biorach commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul

ViewTrick1002 · 11 days ago

Or just build a tested unsafe implementation as a library. For example the Linked List in the standard library.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/collections/linked_list....

biorach · 11 days ago

Yeah, if you need a linked list (you probably don't) use that. If however you are one of the very small number of people who need fine-grained control over a tailored data-structure with internal cross-references or whatnot then you may find yourself in a world where Rust really does not believe that you know what you are doing and fights you every step of the way. If you actually do know what you are doing, then Zig is probably the best modern choice. The TigerBeetle people chose Zig for these reasons, various resources on the net explain their motivations.

biorach commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul

markus_zhang · 11 days ago

Not a system programmer -- at this point, does C hold any significant advantage over Rust? Is it inevitable that everything written in C is going to be gradually converted to safer languages?

biorach · 11 days ago

There are certain styles of programming and data structure implementations that end up requiring you to fight Rust at almost every step. Things like intrusive data structures, pointer manipulation and so on. Famously there is an entire book online on how to write a performant linked list in idiomatic Rust - something that is considered straightforward in C.

For these cases you could always use Zig instead of C

biorach commented on Perpetual futures, explained bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/sirodoht

spir · 15 days ago

I don't think many people on HN realize how globally systemically important public blockchains are on track to become, especially Ethereum.

The understandable hatred of the casino and many scams has blinded most of HN as to the true potential of the technology and its associated new public institutions.

That's what a decentralized public blockchain is, a new kind of public institution.

One small example of this is that the most state-of-the-art perpetual futures market in the world is an Ethereum Layer 2 named Lighter https://app.lighter.xyz/markets/

biorach · 15 days ago

> the most state-of-the-art perpetual futures market in the world is an Ethereum Layer 2 named Lighter

Is this not just a state of the art innovation in the Ponzi scheme and online casino space?

biorach commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

menaerus · 24 days ago

Social maybe yes what legal aspects? Everybody keeps repeating that but there is no copyright infringement. Maybe you can point me to one?

I understand that people are uncomfortable with this, I am likely too, but objectively looking there's technically nothing wrong or different to what humans already do.

biorach · 24 days ago

The point is that it ended up in the PR in the first place. The submitted seemed unaware of its presence and only looked into it after it was pointed out. This is sloppy and is a major red flag.

biorach commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

menaerus · 24 days ago

Yes, please then find those for now imaginative issues and drill through them? Sorry, but I haven't seen anyone in that MR calling out for technical deficiencies so this is just crying out loud in a public for no concrete reasons.

It's the same as if your colleague sitting next to you would not allow the MR to be merged for various political and not technical reasons - this is exactly what is happening here.

biorach · 24 days ago

> Yes, please then find those for now imaginative issues and drill through them?

No, that is a massive amount of work which will only establish what we already know with a high degree of certainty due to the red flags already mentored - that this code is too flawed to begin with.

This is not political, this is looking out for warming signs in order to avoid wasting time. At this stage the burden of proof is on the submitter, not the reviewers

biorach commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

joelreymont · 24 days ago

I'm the author of the PR.

No, I'm not AI or bot, etc. Yes, my resume is genuine and is even more weird than what was listed (see https://joel.id/resume). Oh, and I live in Kyiv.

As for the PR itself, it was a PR stunt that I regret now as the code works and solves a real problem (at least for me!). I'll probably redo it, once I have spare Claude $$$ which I'm using for other projects now (https://joel.id/build-your-dreams/).

My motivation was to use the free $1000 of Claude credits for there greater good, as well as to try to push AI to its limits. It has worked out splendidly so far, my regrettable dumping of that huge PR on OCaml maintainers notwithstanding. For example, I'm having Claude write me a Lisp compiler from scratch, as well as finish a transpiler.

Last but not least, I think AI will write your next compiler and I write about it here https://joel.id/ai-will-write-your-next-compiler/

P.S. I'll try to answer the questions while I'm waiting for my Claude daily limits to reset...

biorach · 24 days ago

Tip:

A list compiler should be relatively straightforward, as these things go. If you get the AI to write it you should actually read it, all of it, and understand it, to the point where you can add features and fix bugs yourself. There are many many resources on the subject. Only after this should you consider contributing to open source projects. And even then you need to be able to read and understand your contributions

biorach commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

menaerus · 24 days ago

Yes what? Both oxcaml and ocaml have compatible LGPL licenses so I didn't get your argument.

But even if that hadn't been the case, what exactly would be the problem? Are you saying that I cannot learn from a copyrighted book written by some respected and known author, and then apply that knowledge elsewhere because I would be risking to be sued for copyright infringement?

biorach · 24 days ago

The wider point is that copyright headers are a very important detail and that a) the AI got it wrong b) you did not notice c) you have not taken on board the fact that it is important despite being told several times and have dismissed the issue as unimportant

Which raises the question how many other important incorrect details are buried in the 13k lines of code that you are unaware of and unable to recognise the significance of? And how much mantainer time would you waste being dismissive of the issues?

People have taken the copyright header as indicative of wider problems in the code.

biorach commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

menaerus · 24 days ago

It matters because it completely weakens their point of stance and make them look unreasonable. Header is irrelevant since it isn't copyright infringement, and FWIW when it has been corrected (in the MR), then they decided that the MR is too complex for them and closed the whole issue. Ridiculous.

biorach · 24 days ago

An incorrect copyright header is a major red flag for non technical reasons. If you think it is an irrelevant minor matter then you do not undesirable several very important social and legal aspects of the issue.

biorach commented on We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application mitchellh.com/writing/gho... · Posted by u/tosh

ur-whale · 4 months ago

> no need for the bitchy response.

Says the man who accuses others of lack of expertise without a shred of evidence.

biorach · 4 months ago

Well you seem to think automating update of terminfo on a fleet of machines is too difficult so...