Rob Napier

I really wish we had a Task-aware Swift debugger. So often when something hangs, there's nothing on any of the thread stacks, because Tasks don't hold the thread while waiting. Do we have any tools yet that are aware of waiting Tasks rather than just waiting threads?

This recent post from Anthropic, "Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes," is absolutely worth a read. But if I may make a humble suggestion: Place yourself first in a no-mind state, neither hopeful nor cynical, and just read it. Do not assume you know what it says.

There is a great deal of admission in here of the deep, systemic limitations of AI code generation. There are also insights of how we might explore its possibilities. Both are important.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

RE: @johnzajac@dice.camp

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.