well, you didn’t link any and you’re the one generalizing it, so the proof is on you to provide. I doubt their conclusions are like you’re making them sound.

Are those studies in the context of software development? What are the tasks at hand? Do they evaluate critical thinking on matters that people actually care about or on chores? Were they instructed to use LLMs in a particular way that is equivalent to their personal preference?

You can’t pull a wildcard saying something like that because it’s too broad of a conclusion.

Only if you don’t care about your own cognitive decline

That sounds like Socrates’ argument that writing would weaken people’s memories.

And absolutely, people will probably forget the syntax by heart if they don’t type it as frequently. Personally, knowing syntax is not very valuable to me, as it’s just a means to an end. And whether that leads to cognitive decline or not, is really up to who’s using the tool.

Saying it leads to cognitive decline is saying you can’t use an LLM and have critical thinking, which I can’t agree with.

I’m sure he included himself in that group

and that’s a different problem entirely

mpv for about 6 years now. Like VLC it plays pretty much anything I need to, but it feels snappier

It really isn’t. A line by line translation doesn’t introduce new logic and doesn’t change the system architecture. Saying it carries the same tech debt as brand new code is just not true.

you can’t compare the tech debt because it’s essentially a line by line translation from an existing codebase, not 1M brand new lines of code

definitely, zen trying so hard to be arc totally ruined it

the faster you burn them the sooner you burnout

yes, but when you make a port from one language to another, usually you want to rewrite it as a translation first, then refactor later with the features that language provides. A port that refactors everything in the first release is too risky.

The fact the translation has unsafe blocks only demonstrates the Zig version is not really safe as per Rust standards.

do you replicate your CI environment locally with something like act (for GitHub Actions)

this is what does it for me most times; but I usually also have a CI .env file act can use and use just to abstract recipes e.g. when running just test, either CI or local will run depending if the CI env var is set. It’s the same battery of tests, only different env files.

Zig is not as strict as Rust for memory management

for anyone like me who could not understand that stupid title

“Call a spade a spade” is a figurative expression. It refers to calling something “as it is”[1]—that is, by its right or proper name, without “beating about the bush”, but rather speaking truthfully, frankly, and directly about a topic;

“Blow smoke” - to speak idly, misleadingly, or boastfully

Fwiw it works on the desktop’s alexandrite ui and on the thunder app

that crushed ear lobe lol

that’s still massive, an animated webm will probably be more useful

I can’t wait for the day they decide to build a hyperspatial express highway through our star system

that’s bad, we’ll get a pretty bad reputation around the milky way

There’s plenty of busy work that requires some level of “thinking” but it doesn’t add anything to whoever is doing it for the 50th time. You’re the one sounding like an idiot for ignoring this.