You can look at it this way. Or, you can see it as raising the bar for new entrants. If a new programming language has sufficient merits to overcome a poor level of AI assistance, then nothing will stop it, at least in some circles.
But, if mainstream developers have become totally dependent on AI, it is going to be a high bar indeed.
It would be interesting to bake AI into compilers of any new language, so that auto-correction and education of the programmer happens every time they compile.
In general, though, I think people are too quick to surrender to AI.
Now that picotron is ramping up which basically offers a superset in terms of features compared to pico8: will there be an expanded picotron version of picocad?
Not too long ago I would have agreed with you. That was, for a long time a decent way to enjoy Twitter, even when people were already long claiming it was an unpleasant place.
But for the current situation you are just misrepresenting the problem.
Aggressively maintaining a decent follow list no longer helps.
And "other viewpoints" are not the problem. Every somewhat popular tweet has automated replies full of porn bots and clearly automated answers that say basically nothing or just try to provoke or advertise.
"Following" has become infuriatingly useless too because it algorithmically sorts in nonsensical ways.
The result: many tweets I would have liked to see get completely buried while others get shown to me over and over as I visit the site.
I'm so incredibly tired of algorithmic timelines.
It used to be a good tool on interesting updates on hobbies I enjoy. Now it just wants to waste my time, and I'm just not interested in screaming matches about daily politics.
That includes echo chambers too so it is not about differing opinions even, I don't need people from "my side" telling me again and again what the "enemy" is doing wrong and how I am supposed get angry at that.
> Aggressively maintaining a decent follow list no longer helps.
> I'm so incredibly tired of algorithmic timelines.
Then why not just use your following lists? I have a main list of people I follow, mostly people I know, then a bunch of topical lists for various topics, from silly stuff to NLP.
i'll note that everyone, even the guys i like and never post about politics are posting politics. interesting times.
i will probably work through my physical book backlog in the meantime.
other things: i use the web app exclusively. the bots have been pushed to the bottom of all replies or hidden. the following feed is unaltered and chrono (annoyingly so, some posters post A LOT). and i know even hovering on things i dislike for too long will show me more of that. i get good good content from non american friends so i have a hunch this is a unique american thing rn
Whether that behaviour is acceptable is not the question. In my opinion it is not, but I don't think I should decide because a whole lot of things that are widely seen as very acceptable I would place under bad for the internet as well.
If you throw around an idea as strong as that of a "good netizen" I am much more interested in where it ends.
Something that the page does not seem to comment on: will easy embeddability, like with lua, be a priority for this project? Especially in Zig (obviously). It's the most interesting question and use-case that comes to mind.
Fully agree. The biggest bummer when it comes to Julia for me is that proper compilation is just an afterthought. And it seems like compilation of portable binaries will remain a second class citizen inside the Julia project?
Julia with a proper `Julia -compile` flag that results in a proper binary of reasonable size would catapult Julia from "kinda nice, but limited" into "one of my favourite languages" territory.
