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"To underscore the consequences of not having that kind of data, Smiley pointed to a recent attempt to rewrite SQLite in Rust using AI."

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

#AIBubble

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

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Mar 20 at 2:48amWeb
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦2d ago
@anttipeltola there's a typo in the article. the actual slowdown is 20,000 times.
Show threadKumar McMillan2d ago

@anttipeltola according to the linked article they only ran a benchmark *after* the LLM rewrote SQLite. Yeeeaaah, that’s not gonna work.

Here’s what happens when you tell the LLM to run a benchmark continuously after each change and discard any patch that makes things slower: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/shopify-ceo-ai-agent-liquid-engine-53-faster/

Feedback loops matter. They’ve always mattered for hand written software but they matter more for AI because LLMs are good at reacting to corrective instructions.

Shopify CEO Uses AI Agent to Make Liquid 53% Faster

Tobi Lütke ran Karpathy's autoresearch loop against the Liquid templating engine he created 20 years ago, producing 93 commits from 120 experiments that cut parse+render time by 53% and allocations by 61%.

Awesome Agents
Show threadtrademark2d ago
@kumarvibe @anttipeltola The guy who did the benchmarks tried to see if an LLM could fix the problem itself https://substack.com/home/post/p-191241059 he tried three times with differently skilled hypothetical personas.
AI Does Not Replace Developers. It Amplifies What They Lack.

AI Does Not Replace Developers.

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Show threadMikeStok2d ago
@kumarvibe @anttipeltola is that the same Lütke who’s happy to host Nazi stores on his platform?
Show threadEmma needs ☕️ and paying work1d ago
@kumarvibe @anttipeltola okay, so now you're no longer programming, you're trying hill climbing and depending on what your stochastic text prediction loop does, you can end up at a local maximum because at the end of the day, it's a stochastic text prediction engine financed by nazis.
Show threadEmma needs ☕️ and paying work1d ago
@kumarvibe @anttipeltola it doesn't matter if it's somehow better, it's still wrong because it wastes resources, produced without consent, and its biggest boosters are fascists.
Show threadKumar McMillan1d ago

@emma @anttipeltola correct, it’s not programming, it’s building software that people can use. Personally I like using software and it brings me joy to build useful software for others.

Opus 4.6 was a turning point. Prompts just work the first time, no need for “prompt engineering”

Does it wreck the environment? Sure, I guess, but crossing the Atlantic in a boat would be a ridiculous choice. I’d take a jet.

Fascism, really? OK, maybe leave the US like I did? Fascists are everywhere. Good luck

Show threadmeta physical deflationist23h ago
@kumarvibe @emma @anttipeltola this is possibly the most trash opinion ive ever heard from a person who looks like maybe they touched a grass
Show threadAntti Peltola ⁂20h ago

@glassresistor @kumarvibe @emma

Total disregard for:

✅ The environment as Scotland will experience negative effects of climate change decades later.

✅ The US turning into a fascist shithole since the poster had money to leave the sinking ship.

Show threadAntti Peltola ⁂1d ago

@kumarvibe

Shopify worker glazing over Shopify CEO in my post.

I'm thankful I retired from tech in 2019. Things are really going to shit.

Show threadKumar McMillan1d ago

@anttipeltola if you think tech is bad now, try reading Hackers. There’s only one mention of Margaret Hamilton: she was annoyed she couldn’t use the main frame after Steven Levy broke it (cuz he’s a dick).

Open source collaboration made software fun for me in the 2000s. I’m still excited about the new era. It’s different. For the first time we can build software at light speed and, ultimately, I find *building* software the most fun. I don’t represent Shopify. It’s a big co doing big co things.

Show threadGreg15h ago

@anttipeltola
OK. Here's a conundrum. I am and always have been a crappy coder but I work in software as a UX designer and I'm good at that. I have loads of ideas about useful projects that I can't code or would take ages, inevitably getting bogged down in the swamp of self righteousness that is Stack Overflow.

Competent coders are busy building their own visions and won't help. AI is the solution for me. In the last few weeks, I (and I mean AI) have knocked three long-term, 'meaning to get it done for ages', projects off my list. Not to say AI is good all the time. But once the structure's there I've been able to steer, cajole & constrain, through careful prompt construction. It puts me in the game.

At one level, AI is building prototypes (sorry Figma) and if I commercialized any of these, I'd go with meat based coders to refine or start again. But, I'd be confident that I'd specified the back end and frontend user experience I wanted