Wow! Reading this after watching PHM I almost cried...again.

Now, this is what impressed me the most: ""... and wrote software flexible enough to be updated from Earth decades after launch.."

OTA patches where invented in the 70's :)

What's PHM

Project Hail Mary. It's a sci-fi novel by Andy Weir (author of The Martian) that was adapted into a movie that released in theaters a couple weeks ago. It's fantastic and you should totally read/watch it.

Do programmers actually write in wasm or automatic tools port/compile other languages to wasm?

I wouldn't generally use hand coded WASM in production, but I've used it for educational purposes [1], and just because I'm perhaps a bit perverse [2][3] (3 includes some helper utilities in Common.ts).

[1] https://exercism.org/profiles/mikestaas/solutions

[2] https://github.com/mikestaas/wasmfizzbuzz/blob/main/fizzbuzz...

[3] https://github.com/mikestaas/walox/tree/main/src

Ratio of web developers writing wasm is even less than ratio of system developers writing asm.

It's mostly Rust compiled to wasm binaries. There's also TinyGo and you could use C/C++ as well, but those 3 are a lot less common as far as I can tell.

And Blazor, however I am not a big fan of it, it feels like an escape path for WebForm developers, and I surely don't want to debug that kind of code again, MVC is much better approach.

My words:

This feels like don't buy at Walmart, support the local small shop. We passed the no return sign miles ago.

Gemini's:

This is like advocating for artisanal blacksmithing in the age of industrial steel. It sounds great in theory, but we passed the point of no return miles back.

Yeah, we can tell the difference :)

leave it to Gemini to dismiss artisanal craft when the community of discussion is primarily one of craftspeople :)

> We passed the no return sign miles ago > we passed the point of no return miles back

Unrolling a metaphor into its literal meaning is one of the most annoying features of the "AI voice", IMO

Seems the robotaxi saved a life.

For us that started doing web apps as soon as the web was invented, JQ was a miracle.

Thanks guys!

Compliance. If you wanna sell your SAAS to big corpo, their compliance teams will feel you know what you're doing if they read AWS or Cloudflare on your architecture, even if you do not quite know what you're doing.

So they read the chats?

Of course, there is already news about how they use every single interaction to train it better.

There is news about how a judge is forcing them to keep every chat in existence for EVERYONE just in case it could relate to a court case (new levels of worldwide mass surveillance can apparently just happen from one judges snap decision)

There is news about cops using some guys past image generation to try and prove he is a pyromaniac (that one might have been police accessing his devices though)

Not in my experience. I still spend much of the time thinking before prompting. Then I spend time reviewing the AI written code before using it. Does not feel like a trap. It mostly feels like having a super experienced pair programmer. I may be using it differently than others since I do not have it integrated to my IDE. I use it like I used google + stackoverflow before it.

To be fair you can’t really appreciate if you’ve been trapped unless you test yourself without the ai agent for some time and see if there is a difference in output. If there is, you’ve been trapped.

Luck favors the bold. One acts boldly because one feels lucky.

I've said this before: for most web apps, React is like hiring an 18-wheeler to deliver a pizza. Years ago, the same was true for Wordpress.

An engineer designs solutions. That includes selecting the right tools.