Anti-LLM Sentiment Considered Harmful

clinton:

This is slow. Not stupidly slow but Java slow (arguably worse as Java has had a lot more resources put into it’s optimising JIT compiler)

“Slow” as in not appropriate for solving the class of low-level problems where running a garbage collector is an active hindrance, the area where C/C++/Rust excel. For the vast majority of real-world problems correctly executing the necessary sequence of steps with efficient data structures in mind is plenty fast as is, so having a language that can abstract all of the underlying complexity tidily is preferable.

That being said some parts of Haskell do absolutely suck performance-wise. I wish I could program on the type level same way I do on the term-level, the inability to do so makes both precompilation and mutable records unfeasible without introducing separate GHC extensions (something noone bothered with so far).

clinton:

Also the term “hallucinate” is stupid. [..] The term “lying” is far more accurate

The correct term for it is “bullshitting”.

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