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  • It isn’t always about “new”. For example, some GNU binaries are decades old and were changed only to fix bugs.

    C has major disadvantages compared to Rust, which is why even Linus Torvalds said a couple of years ago, to not write any new C code anymore for the Kernel and that old code will be transpiled steadily.

    It is not about a cult. It is not about being fancy. It is quite the opposite. Choosing Rust over C is very rational.

    Also, obligatory fuck Canonical. Automatic transpiling is such a stupid thing. Have fun maintaining the new code that was written by a machine, while not having any Rust experts in your team.









  • This is such a bizarre take on AI.

    If I ask you a question, I want a useful answer. I don’t care whether you got there by remembering it, Googling it, reading documentation, asking a colleague, or asking an LLM.

    Obviously, blindly pasting 2,000 words of irrelevant AI slop is annoying. But that’s a problem with bad answers, not with AI.

    The particularly stupid part is suggesting that you should take a perfectly good AI-generated answer and rewrite it in your own words. What exactly has been achieved then? The information is identical, except somebody wasted five minutes manually paraphrasing it so the recipient can feel sufficiently exposed to human keystrokes.

    Use AI. Give it the relevant context. Verify important claims. Remove irrelevant garbage. Send the useful answer.

    Judge communication by its accuracy, relevance and usefulness—not by how inefficiently somebody produced it.

    /s