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Joe Estephan
AI Engineer | LLM Apps, RAG & Agents | Python, AWS, Scraping
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Rewriting in Rust won't fix a slow app, profiling will.
Sean Goedecke's post this week says software is slow because of design, not language. The Lobsters thread answers with people who rewrote Ruby or Python services in C# and cut their server count. Both are right, and...
Dijkstra's 1978 essay on natural language programming describes vibe coding.
He argued that programming needs a formal symbolism because plain language hides mistakes, and that a machine taking instructions in English would make silly errors harder to catch, not easier....
Stop reading every line of AI-written code.
You can't keep up, and reading isn't understanding anyway. The Meta engineer who said it all feels like a black box skipped the step that matters, the design. I decide the interfaces and the plan, and the model fills in the bodies....