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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • While Rust would probably have been a good choice for implementing a new browser, I don’t think Swift deserves the criticism it’s getting in this thread:

    • Swift was created by the same person who created Rust, and has many of the same nice traits
    • Swift is a modern language that is easy for plenty of developers to pick up; I’d place it in the same family as Rust and Kotlin
    • Swift grants access to a large pool of native iOS/Mac developers






    • General purpose LLMs are starting to replace everyday queries I used to posit to Google. Perplexity can be quite good for this.
    • Copilot as enhanced autocomplete when writing code. A particularly good use-case is writing tests: with a few test cases already written, a sufficiently good test name will most often generate a well-written test case.
    • LLMs for lazy generation of SQL queries can sometimes be quite nice.
    • Writing assistance for things I find myself struggling to get written by myself. A writing unblocking tool, if you will.

    It’s reducing the effort and time I have to put into some things, and I appreciate that. It’s far from perfect, but it doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.