Maybe cause we are keeping it for our own stuff! I've been using a custom CAD dsl for some side projects

I think this is a wise decision for the vast majority of code-influencers

I think the interesting part is not that you cannot have a good career in AI / formerly Ml without participating in these highly concentrated networking orgies, but we can't deny that there is a huge concentration in rationalist communities and formerly in effective altruism.

. With agentic coding, I think this approach will be a lot more common! gamedev used to do it quite a lot like it too, I remember we had everything from re-implementations of stdlib stuff too for our anticheat. TigerBeetle really resonates with good engineering imo

I would think so, but we are on a crunch cycle in the industry, when hiring picks back up it will be a disaster

. It is happening, but the budgets for agentic loops are wide open right now , so less skilled people are getting away with it . If we reach a point where token efficiency matters the ones that haven't done anything of consequence will not be able to compete. However so many seams are wide open and constantly being patched over, cause things being stable is an afterthought when code is cheap. Just look at how many more incidents and reliability metric dips we are seeing, true expertise is still valuable, but a heck of a lot harder to filter when everyone can do it now.

Non-AI content to read 🫡 honestly miss that a lot lately

hard to control for post-covid, many things are demonstrably worse. Sadly it leaks to our personal life sometimes

I love zig, but Jai's compilation speed alone is the absolute best feature imo

I'm a huge fan of how transparent they are, I've learned a lot through their talks and interactions here. Truly a great team

I didn't know you started tirso with zig! I'm a big fan of niche languages, jai is incredible for performance focused stuff , but in an LLM driven world data will have such a strong impact long term. However I do believe niche languages will shine through given they hold a higher distribution of high performance well written code. Agree with your points just hope the hobbyist languages don't fade out completely

Its an inefficiency on both ends tbh, often you are also met with people that cannot understand the nuance of what you built or the circumstances that led to certain decisions, or even understand it at a reasonable level. I think applicants often have less context on employers too.

That's my preference tbh, if you are hiring people good at something let them, and more often than not the outcome will be far better than if you managed every interaction. I bet it was a success

Getting funding for anything non-trivial is just not feasible in Europe most of the time, one of my favourite personal anecdotes, we were looking for funding on a young startup I was hire 4 in; 10 years ago, no European VC would take us even though we were cashflow positive at that stage and growing. we got acquired months later

It is still wild to me this is something we have to state now! I lowered my guard spotted some rust and back at working this way too

have you had a chance of testing it with Fable? I also find Opus not that great on verifiable non-iterative work