Heart heart heart heart heart heart.

With a single post, you’ve already become the best runtime in terms of valuing what I value

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I see LLMs as scab, as scar tissue. They don’t solve anything, but they rush in to fill a void.

Software has shown itself to be one such void: there’s massive unmet demand for software literacy: both to find bugs in existing software, and to create new software or customize existing tools.

I just want to make sure the vision for the future is one of broad human code literacy. Nothing about AI should change the imperative that we break down the systemic barriers that prevent more people from being literate. Only broad human literacy will result in the creation of systems that sustainably and continuously serve the needs of their users.

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Once you start spending your time talking to AI, you start to lose what makes you unique. You stop generating uniqueness and start consuming sameness. People are natural mimics and empaths. You can’t spend your time conversing with a statistical model and not be cognitively affected by it.

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Oh how the mighty have fallen.

But that’s what AI does, it brings mighty people low; makes them common.

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I agree with you about all this. Also it was really Bun not Node that was setting the pace. I might consider putting my own runtime into the field one of these days, as I have my own ideas about how to make it into a platform worth using.

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Well we’ve yet to see the real outcome. Once their maintenance actually stops, will anyone else step up? Will they have a different vision? I’m one of the people who agreed that Deno made a mistake by deciding to (endlessly) chase Node compatibility. The moment they did that is the moment that I, as a library author, gave up on explicitly supporting their ecosystem. Why would I when I could just support the node ecosystem as the one universal standard? And if the Node ecosystem is the one universal standard supported everywhere, why would I waste any time with the parts of Deno that aren’t parts of Node? So yeah I agree that they really expressed a vote of no confidence in their own experiment when they did that and put the writing on the wall for this day.

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Don’t you have to be a little detached, considering the casual way in which Russia treats human life? I hear their soldiers survive the front lines for 30 minutes on average. I don’t have all the information to pass moral judgement on the 3am events of that night. Even if I had all the information available, I still don’t know how I would pass judgement on his life (so far). He seems to spend his time consumed by a thankless, endless task. Is it penance now? Was it some kind of penance before? Can people even/ever be redeemed?

How do we keep dreaming about a future worth fighting for when so much bad stuff has happened, stuff that must be the foundation on which we build?

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SO STOP HELPING KILL IT

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