s-lambert (u/s-lambert)

s-lambert commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ralph84 · a month ago

Where else would the CI service for a Microsoft product be invented? NIH is a weird insult in this context. If Microsoft had instead acquired a CI service you’d be complaining about how they’re reducing competition.

s-lambert · a month ago

Microsoft had their own CI service and it existed before GitHub Actions did, it was renamed Azure Dev Ops but it existed before GitHub Actions and it was largely similar from what I remember.

s-lambert commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

ahartmetz · a month ago

They could at least try to vaguely match the voice and maybe cadence of the original. AFAIU it's one of these things that would have been too hard ten years ago but is fairly easy now. Too computationally expensive probably.

s-lambert · a month ago

Yeah ElevenLabs had this over a year ago where you could just upload a 30 second clip of someone's voice in another language and hear what it was like in English and it worked really well.

s-lambert commented on The write last, read first rule tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/vismit2000

s-lambert · a month ago

But it's not an AI generated image, it has the artist's signature in the bottom right corner. Tigerbeetle has a lot of custom artwork designed for their stuff that's high quality. I don't even see why you would think it was AI generated even without the artist signature, it's using the Tigerbeetle mascot and it looks drawn for the particular theme the blog is talking about.

s-lambert commented on AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is fastcompany.com/91435192/... · Posted by u/felineflock

harshaw · a month ago

Why? I look at this. I want engineers to use the tools on the stuff that AI is good at so we can do more high value work.

s-lambert · a month ago

If it's obviously useful then people shouldn't need to be prodded into using it. Maybe there are actual downsides to rushing through everything with AI, maybe people can't actually work on the hard things 100% of the time.

I just don't understand this need to rush, software already moves fast without AI tools. Software developers already make a lot of money for their companies that their salaries are easily covered. Realistically people could develop software 10x slower than now and the world would still keep progressing.

s-lambert commented on Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig github.com/botirk38/OS-10... · Posted by u/botirk

anta40 · 3 months ago

How to build the OS? I'm on macOS with zig 0.15.1 installed.

`zig build` gave me this:

/Users/anta40/Lab/OSDev/OS-1000-lines-zig/build.zig.zon:9:13: error: expected enum literal .name = "zoros",

s-lambert · 3 months ago

The project was made with an older version of Zig, which used strings as keys in zig.build.zon before but then it was changed to use enum literals in 0.14.0 IIRC.

s-lambert commented on Hosting a website on a disposable vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/b... · Posted by u/BogdanTheGeek

Zak · 3 months ago

I'm confused by why anybody would buy one of these when entirely reusable versions exist, but then vaping seems unwise to me in general except as a way to quit tobacco.

s-lambert · 3 months ago

In Australia you need a prescription to get nicotine liquid but every convenience store in any big city sells disposables illegally for cheap.

s-lambert commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik

rane · 4 months ago

> I doubt a PR is going to be buried if it's useful, well designed, good code, etc, just because of this disclosure

If that were the case, why would this rule be necessary, if it indeed is the substance that matters? AI generated anything has a heavy slop stigma right now, even if the content is solid.

This would make for an interesting experiment to submit a PR that was absolute gold but with the disclaimer it was generated with help of ChatGPT. I would almost guarantee it would be received with skepticism and dismissals.

s-lambert · 4 months ago

The rule is necessary because the maintainers want to build good will with contributors and if a contributor makes a bad PR but could still learn from it then they will put effort into it. It's a "if you made a good effort, we'll give you a good effort" and using AI tools gives you a very low floor for what "effort" is.

If you make a PR where you just used AI, it seems to work, but didn't go further then the maintainers can go "well I had a look, it looks bad, you didn't put effort in, I'm not going to coach you through this". But if you make a PR where you go "I used AI to learn about X then tried to implement X myself with AI writing some of it" then the maintainers can go "well this PR doesn't look good quality but looks like you tried, we can give some good feedback but still reject it".

In a world without AI, if they were getting a lot of PRs from people who obviously didn't spend any time on their PRs then maybe they would have a "tell us how long this change took you" disclosure as well.

s-lambert commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan

ceejayoz · 5 months ago

I’d forgo a lot of glory for $250M. I suspect I’m not rare in that.

s-lambert · 5 months ago

And it's only temporary too, he can work for Meta for a few years and then do whatever he wants for the rest of his life.