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artemsokolov ◴[22 Oct 24 20:17 UTC] No.41918225[source]▶

>>41913458 (OP) #

1972: Using Anything Other Than Assembly Will Make You a Bad Programmer

1995: Using a Language with a Garbage Collector Will Make You a Bad Programmer

2024: Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

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1. rsynnott ◴[23 Oct 24 09:21 UTC] No.41923314[source]▶

>>41918225 #

> Using a Language with a Garbage Collector Will Make You a Bad Programmer

If garbage collectors only did the correct thing 90% of the time, and non-deterministically did something stupid the other 10%, then, er, yeah, it very much would!

There's a reason that conservative GCs for C didn't _really_ catch on... (It would be unfair to describe them as as broken as an LLM, but they certainly have their... downsides.)

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