Antti Peltola ⁂3d ago

😂

"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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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 threadEmma needs ☕️ and paying work
@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.
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Show threadEmma needs ☕️ and paying work2d 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 deflationist1d 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 ⁂1d 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.