Posts by swetland@chaos.social
 (DIR) Post #B5SoieWe86MVy74RjU by swetland@chaos.social
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       @mjg59 @etchedpixels @jollyorc @cstross Sure, there's a lot of mediocre writing out in the world too.  Sturgeon's Law applies everywhere.I'm pretty strongly in the camp that having an LLM spit out mediocre slop (and I feel like that's being generous in most cases) *is* an assault on human creativity whether it's prose, pictures, code, or whatever.It's also an assault on quality, comprehensibility, and maintainability, which are all pretty important features of well-written software.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5tfkhOiliyb8VBOJk by swetland@chaos.social
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       Just built and installed NetHack 5.0.0 and holy cats, there's a tutorial now!https://nethack.org/v500/release.html(Fired it up in an ~80x25 xterm for that classic hack feel, though my default xterm font is a bit too modern)#Gaming #NetHack
       
 (DIR) Post #B5yhHZPmXcRRg7iUhE by swetland@chaos.social
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       Is there a site somewhere tracking software that's remaining "AI"-free?  Be it the original projects sticking to human authorship or forks made to preserve/maintain non-crapified versions?I should have bookmarked those vim preservation forks I saw recently.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5yiijsHrNsrtLZJbc by swetland@chaos.social
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       Anyone have a good feeling for how neovim and neovide fare in regards to:1. Overall stability and reliability?2. "AI" contributions present or future?I'm considering a shift away from vim... largely related to # 2, but also I'd really really like to have multiple windows connected to a single session like I did with Xemacs and gnuclient back in the day...The flipside, as I was reminded yesterday when investigating Kate, is that I haven't had vi or vim crash in nearly 30 years of use...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5yiikMQ3LzFOnfNZY by swetland@chaos.social
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       Well, not great news on the "AI" front with #neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.mdI'm of the opinion this sort of thing is just a slippery slope leading to complete slopification of projects.
       
 (DIR) Post #B62tmFOD1N4qd8DOMK by swetland@chaos.social
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       The recent bugs-in-coreutils-in-rust kerfuffle has me thinking again about Future Shell Tools.Ideally it would involve support for structured data. Probably json since it's so ubiquitous, but importantly negotiable to allow for other formats, including interop with classic plain-text tooling.Also such structured data should include passing of file descriptors for more flexibility and avoidance of textual path reparsing footguns.This is more interesting to me than rewriting "mv" and "cp".
       
 (DIR) Post #B68Yet6gXLHpPDQYkq by swetland@chaos.social
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       Next: Finish up register allocation and selection and final code generation from the IR.  At which point it should be self-hosting through the full stage3 compiler.  Guessing it'll wind up around 8000 lines of code total once that's done, but we shall see!Not tiny, but not enormous either.#Projects #Compiler #PLdev