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Sooo much inane naysaying in that Rust for Filesystems article. I'm glad there are people with the stamina to push through it.
I would say a bigger problem is that there are people that think Rust is some kind of religion with acolytes trying to convert people. Is it really that hard to distinguish genuine revolutions (iPhone, Rust, AI, reusable rockets, etc.) from hyped nonsense (Blockchain/web3, Metaverse, etc.)?
These things are very obvious IMO, especially if you actually try them!
It is funny that you list AI under genuine revolutions while I would list it (or at least 90% of it) under hyped nonsense.
It can be both
Modern AI (LLMs etc) is definitely a revolution. Anyone that has tried ChatGPT can tell that, just like the only people saying the iPhone was a fad were the ones that hadn't used it.
The thing that is hyped around AI is companies just trying to shove it into everything, and say stuff uses AI when it is totally inappropriate. That doesn't mean AI itself is nonsense though. The same thing happened with the iPhone (everything had an app even if it made no sense).
If the iPhone had been hyped like AI is today people would have claimed you could replace your hammer, saw, garden hose and cooking utensils with an iPhone.
Meanwhile current AI is pretty much useless for any purpose where you actually need to rely on a decent chance to get quality results without human review.
Sure but there are tons of applications where you can tolerate lower than human levels of performance.
The amount of time ChatGPT has saved me programming is crazy, even though it struggles with more complex or niche tasks.
Here's what I used it for most recently:
It write a couple of hundred lines of code that was not perfect but took 5 minutes to fix. Probably saved me an hour writing it from scratch (I'm not a web dev so I'd have to look things up).