Mastodawn

I wrote up a thing about the AI coding agents https://www.neilhenning.dev/posts/five-stages-grief/

Five Stages of Grief With the Rise of AI

I tried copilot in VS Code sometime in 2025 and was thoroughly disappointed with its ability. It felt like a really bad auto-complete at best, making plenty of mistakes and generally being utterly irritating to actually use with its need to constantly pop in as I was typing with long form coding suggestions that were often wrong. I was already predisposed to being negative about AI due to the usual mix of reasons and wrote off all the AI coding tools as useless.

Neil Henning

Simon Felix Mar 4

Alexandre Mutel Mar 4

Don Knuth, himself, mentioning using Claude Opus 4.6 that helped him resolved a difficult problem. https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

"I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days."

So, is GenAI still generating pure garbage, Knuth an idiot, that likely doesn't know what is he doing? 🤔

Simon Felix Mar 2

John Regehr Mar 2

won't say I'm totally proud of myself here, but once I saw that the Claude C compiler was super buggy according to YARPGen and Csmith, I had a hard time preventing myself from doing something about it

https://john.regehr.org/writing/claude_c_compiler.html

claude_c_compiler

Simon Felix Feb 18

Sebastian Schöner Feb 18

Someone wrote a CUDA compiler. I like the spirit of this: https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA

Simon Felix Dec 23

Paul Fairie Dec 23

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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Simon Felix Nov 29

dynomight Nov 28

Underrated reasons to be thankful V https://dynomight.net/thanks-5/

Simon Felix Jun 1, 2025

Josh Simmons May 31, 2025

Whenever you do web stuff there's this voice in the back of your head that's like "this could be a single application that I compile instead of a house of cards held together by a series of baroque and impenetrable config files"

Simon Felix May 12, 2025

Aksel Alpay May 9, 2025

AdaptiveCpp 25.02 released! Introducing AdaptiveCpp portable CUDA (PCUDA):direct support for the CUDA and HIP languages in AdaptiveCpp's compiler. Compile CUDA code, obtain single binary that runs on CPU, Intel GPU, NVIDIA GPU, AMD GPU. And perhaps even faster than nvcc. https://github.com/AdaptiveCpp/AdaptiveCpp/releases/tag/v25.02.0

Simon Felix Mar 2, 2025

Sheldon Feb 28, 2025

Today would be a good day to donate to #Ukraine. There is an official government website that allows you to donate to one of several funds including defense, reconstruction, medical, and de-mining.

I have a standing $25/month donation to their medical fund and periodically drop more money in on one of the other funds if there aren't boots on the ground kind of fundraisers that I'm backing at the time.

As I don't have the time and attention lately to feel confident in donating to the front line fundraisers, I donate through the Ukraine government's donation site:
https://u24.gov.ua/

I'll be showing them a little love later today. Slava Ukraini.

#NAFO

UNITED24 — The initiative of the President of Ukraine

The official fundraising platform for collecting donations to support Ukraine

u24.gov.ua

Simon Felix Feb 16, 2025

Kees van der Leun Feb 15, 2025

By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz, via https://bsky.app/profile/mweinstock.bsky.social

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