That's how Ai generated code is. I am almost convinced that Models are intentionally taught to write obtuse code because AI companies don't want us to write code at all
More that I got confused by the C function returning bool, not as an error value, but as a result, which is my fault for skimming it quickly.
I have taken a closer look at the code, and it seems superficially a somewhat faithful rewrite, not quite idiomatic Rust, but closer than I anticipated at first. I know there are non-LLM rewriting tools for C to Rust, and with a test suite to help, a rewrite to Rust might be greatly helped. The new Rust code does have some drawbacks in some ways, and there are topics I am curious about.
Gemini writes pretty shitty code in my experience. We tried it out for a grand total of half a day at work before deciding it wasn't worth our time and switched back to Opus.
ChatGPT writes like it's life depends on it and refuses to correct its own mistakes. It'll figure out a way to write 4k lines for something that could've been done in 500
There are plenty of people who are willing to work for the government and the pay is pretty decent. But their stack is often Microsoft based and their IT is located in Apeldoorn.
Who in their right mind would want to travel all the way to Apeldoorn.
A good example of internal development in the government is the police. They have internal development teams.
Most people managing stuff running in a datacenter don't live near that datacenter, it really doesn't matter where it's located. Also, the Netherlands is so tiny that crossing half of the country would still fall under "reasonable commute" in many places
Maybe that’s a reasonable commute to the US mind who isn’t used to work/life balance and likes spending unpaid hours in their car losing precious time with their family.
For me, a reasonable commute is a 10 minute bike ride to the office.
It's about 3 hours to cross the country (Groningen to Rotterdam) on a train and that's assuming you live by the train station and your work is also near the station too, which is mostly not true. I know some people who commute for 1 hour and a half, but they aren't in the office really often.
I used to work in Burbank and lived approximately 34 miles away, across Los Angeles. It could take almost three hours for me to drive home on a Friday afternoon on the freeway. This was before Covid, and traffic has only gotten worse.
it's one huge grift. The fact that people (or most likely bots) in this thread are even reacting to this positively is staggering. This whole "experiment" has no value
The poster is the author of the website. So I think it's self-promo mixed with "hey, look how interesting is the amount of 'bureaucracy' involved when one wants to move out of Germany"
I don't gain anything from promoting my free, hyperlocal content here, but I love to talk about my work and the discussion here is unfailingly interesting.
I liked it, even though I have no intention of changing my domicile from Germany.
The checklist somehow seems very German, including the advice that you don't have to turn in a resignation letter if you're fired. I know that sounds snarky, but the bureaucracy laid out is so vast it's actually warranted.
As a USAmerican though, I see it as more general—a statement about how modern, "1st-world" civilization has become so god-damned complicated.
I catch myself (especially since I have kids) realizing how difficult it is to navigate some aspect of modern life (for example, various payment methods—credit cards). A kind of mantra that always rises in my thoughts is, "No one would ever have designed the system to work like this."
Somehow, independent actors, independent reasons, likely the ability to make it this complex has indeed made it this complex.
It's no surprise then that just functioning in this modern society induces a level of background anxiety. Pretty much the opposite of "touching grass".
I don't live in the US, yet US centric news are covered here on the regular. Hold your horses and don't interact with a post if you are not interested.
I'm personally especially interested in 'Latent Reflection'. I've tried to make something similar never got to a point where I was happy with the output the AI model gave me.
Lots of tuning to get the model to not immediatly spiral into nonsense. But small models are getting better by the minute, maybe i'll revisit it with a better model and share all the code
That'd be really appreciated. For me it just kept repeating the same phrase or just started reflecting on the prompt itself for a sentence or two after which it started spouting random nonsense like a pasta recipe.
performance for a tool like this isn't really a huge priority imho. Libraries should have compatibility as a priority over performance unless it's the stated goal.
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