Simon Felix

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Show threadSimon Felix1d ago
@regehr Disable overcommit? Or move to an OS with sane OOM behavior.
Simon FelixMar 18
Neil HenningMar 18
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
Show threadSimon FelixMar 10
@glennklockwood Hmm... The data analysis techniques themselves are not interesting?
Simon FelixMar 4
Alexandre MutelMar 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 FelixMar 2
John RegehrMar 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 FelixFeb 18
Sebastian SchönerFeb 18
Someone wrote a CUDA compiler. I like the spirit of this: https://github.com/Zaneham/BarraCUDA
Show threadSimon FelixFeb 17
@DHowett Haiku? is_computer_on_fire Haiku? 😍
Show threadSimon FelixFeb 9
@sschoener For me the trickiest part was layout. There's a nice paper out there of somebody using an MILP solver for layout. Seems like a awesome idea, but I'd expect scalability limits. What do you use for layout?
Show threadSimon FelixFeb 5
@glennklockwood Cooling. End of story.
Show threadSimon FelixJan 23
@zwarich 100% this! I don't understand why so few people care about latency. Not even UX professionals seem to care.