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Zig v0.17.0

267 points · 208 comments · ErenayDev

  1. audunw · · focus · HN ↗
    Would recommend checking out the Zig state of the (tagged) union as well.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;zwi5b5xSsKA?is=PTjJJjSnVMdRuZag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;zwi5b5xSsKA?is=PTjJJjSnVMdRuZag

    It may surprise some people here to see that Andrew is warming up to using LLMs to discover bugs (inspired by results from SQLlite) and considers it a tool on the path to getting to bug free software.

    1. saghm · · focus · HN ↗
      &gt; It may surprise some people here to see that Andrew is warming up to using LLMs to discover bugs (inspired by results from SQLlite) and considers it a tool on the path to getting to bug free software.

      Someone in the thread below says their bug was closed because of mentioning that they use AI to confirm the bug they had encountered. Is he going to go back and reopen all of those now that he learned what pretty much everyone else already knew?

      1. idle_zealot · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; Someone in the thread below says their bug was closed because of mentioning that they use AI to confirm the bug they had encountered

        I don&#x27;t know about this particular case, but if I saw someone report a bug and as evidence claim they had X Y and Z LLMs verify it I would be pretty upset. If you&#x27;re going to use an LLM to make a replication, just do that and give me the replication, don&#x27;t point to your notoriously error-prone tools as though they lend your report credence.

        It&#x27;s in a similar vein to people who reply to questions with &quot;well Claude says: &lt;chat transcript dump&gt;&quot;

        1. kingcauchy · · focus · HN ↗
          Human reproductions are notoriously error prone whether ai assisted or not right? I’m not sure what the analogy is between “llms are error prone” and “thoughtlessly copy-pasting something from Claude” is.
          1. dwattttt · · focus · HN ↗
            Human reproductions don&#x27;t have to be bad. It feels just as justified to push back on a bad bug report whether human or AI and say &quot;I don&#x27;t have enough to go on here&quot;.

            If a report is improved and becomes actionable, that&#x27;s great.

            1. tech_hutch · · focus · HN ↗
              Hey, we&#x27;re all the result of human reproductions.
              1. kingcauchy · · focus · HN ↗
                Might be my favorite comment ever now.
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