Suppose there are two options: remaster the game with AI assistance, or don’t remaster the game at all (because that would entail porting 72,758 lines of assembly by hand, and the time-to-reward ratio would be deemed to low for most people).

Why complain about the outcome? The old game remains available, and you can play it for free. This isn’t some zero sum situation where the existence of the remastered game sets the world back in some way. I could see being more interested (or only interested) in playing the original, but I don’t see what motivates the negativity.

> I don't require the circuit boards in my electronics to be hand-drilled either.

This is the exact example I used the other day. Same with pick-and-place, CNC for subtractive manufacturing, 3D printing for additive, plastic injection molding, etc. I wouldn't want to live in a world where the only option for products produced by such automation were instead done one-off by artisans. Sure, if you want a hand crafted laptop where everything (save for the silicon, I suppose) was hand carved, hand placed, hand soldered, etc, you should, by all means, be allowed to pay $20,000-$200,000 for that privilege, instead of ~$2,000.

It's bizarre to me that so many developers are overly attached to typing every individual character. If I could get paid for my sense of knowledge and good judgement to design software while delegating 100% of the process of creating to a team of engineers, I would. And as a staff engineer, I'm already close to that, but there are things I have to roll my sleeves up and handle myself.

It makes me wonder if these same people take issue with task delegation in software development: is it also problematic when a staff engineer delegates tasks across teams, or a senior engineer mentors a junior developer?

It's such a stifling, self-limiting belief that it's actually saddening :(.

It's also a hypocritical belief: the machine they used to type out these thoughts were assembled in a factory, using CNC, pick-and-place, laser engraving, plastic injection molding, etc. With the exception of a few things (ex: the silicon itself) all of these things could be hand crafted - it would just make the price of computer impractical. Commoditization is a good thing, and automation is necessary for that.

I can only imagine that what is actually happening is that these people are attached to the craft of software development, and AI represents a threat to that, just as CNC milling has displaced manual machinists. But then everyone would be better off if they found an appropriate place to vent that frustration (a therapist? a friend? like-minded forum dedicated to AI complaints?), rather than projecting onto (and leveling complaints at) people using AI.

If said staff engineer would then claim junior’s work as his own, then yes. But for an entirely different reason, as well as this whole analogy doesn’t work here.

I am almost certain that, on a daily basis, you use dozens (or hundreds) of things that:

1. Were produced via plastic injection molding.

2. Were machined by CNC.

3. Have PCBs that were fabricated by machine, milled by machine, and populated via pick-and-place machine.

4. Were laser engraved, or silk screened, or printed.

5. For food/foodstuffs: were processed in an automated factory.

When you use all of these things, do you complain about using/consuming something that someone "couldn't be bothered to hand craft"?

If you don't see/anticipate the utility in a thing (like I don't have any interest in wicker baskets, hand crafted or not), why complain about that thing, instead of just moving along? I'd get it if you wanted to provide constructive feedback, but you can't do that if you're not willing to read the code.

Harboring (and expressing) negative sentiment for things that you opt to not be involved in sounds like a recipe for misery, as there's an infinite number of things to actively dislike if you go looking for them: movies/music that aren't to your tastes, mediocre restaurants, cities you wouldn't want to live in, etc.

I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that full text search systems are ultimately a convoluted way of performing O(N) regex searches? If not, I don't see how you arrive at the conclusion that this is "the same as grep in a memory/ directory".

The memories are stored as OKF (Open Knowledge Format), which is markdown + frontmatter (+ constraints/schema imposed thereon).

Having an inverted index (as with FTS5) is useful in that, for a basic single-term lookup, you reduce a sequential scan, O(N), down to O(log N). For small N, the performance difference might not be meaningful. Performance gap widens with more sophisticated queries (boolean operators, ranking, etc).

Probably not, given that "terrific" was almost certainly used sarcastically here.

“that code” refers to the body of the loop.

Unless the loop is unrolled, yes, there is a branch to exit the loop. But then that doesn’t matter because the whole goal at the beginning was to avoid branch misprediction (which is not the same thing as avoiding branches entirely).

IIUC

1) It isn’t a matter of literally “pasting into a terminal” (with the terminal emulator shoveling bytes into the TUI’s stdin), rather it’s “a TUI key-binding tells TUI app to read system clipboard”. No different than any other app.

2) This works on macOS, Linux and Windows, but not WSL. Sounds fair game to call this a bug, or at the very least a feature disparity.

I've had an upper endoscopy and a colonoscopy, both the same day, and both without anesthesia. If they didn't take a biopsy, it likely shouldn't have been too traumatic, consciously or subconsciously - maybe that's a bit comforting to know.