I can't help but wonder what this cost in USD assuming you paid standard rates from Anthropic. Can someone even ballpark the price?

You could have said the same thing about steam power or electricity. And it’s not just an analogy: The magic of these things is in being universal information engines. You spend capital to build them, using well-understood, scalable techniques, plug them into electricity, and out comes value.

My point is, there’s no chance of a “haves and have nots” emerging, any more than electricity turned out that way in the modern world.

With less employees....

I wonder how well Mandarin works for LLM-based programming. On one hand, it's very token efficient as Mandarin script is very dense in meaning. On the other, I suppose this can increase ambiguity.

I'm using it 50% English (personal projects)/50% Polish (workplace; reasons being agents.md / team is not that english proficient) and honestly I haven't seen much difference in the output/ambiguity.

Polish prompts tend to be shorter due to the language having a lot of verb forms/conjugations, the only "bad" thing for me is that when it's saying "it broke" it tends to use uncanny / blunt words that make me sometimes laugh.

I agree, and those are still too focused on code generation for specific languages are fighting the last war.

It is the revenge of UML modeling.

Eventually it will get good enough that what comes out of agent work, is a matter of formal specification.

Assuming that code is actually needed and cannot be achieved as pure agent orchestration workflows.

I'm using it in english / albanian. Not much difference really. Impressive.

That is actually what companies like IBM and Unisys are already doing today, LLM assisted porting.

https://research.ibm.com/publications/enterprise-scale-cobol...

Why not? I think we are perfectly capable on generating a test and validation environment that we can use for correctness. Most likely llms could do this better than engineers with zero to none domain and language knowledge can do these days. From that point on, rewrites would become feasable (not easy, feasable).

Unlike the GNU coreutils rewrite in Rust, the Bun rewrite in Rust is being undertaken by the owners of the project.

That said, yes, you’re correct that Bun isn’t GPL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun?tab=License-1-ov-file

> absolute position of hating something such as AI and progress

Most takes I've seen are far more nuanced.

Key is that 'progress' has a positive connotation. It is different from change. Mere change - such as new inventions - may not necessarily be aligned with progress in a field, society, etc.

Change may be inevitable, but it's up to us humans to sculpt it into progress.

Thats true, but the author might have decided on its own. Not everything is a marketing plan.