obviously, they and their claude didn't think about that

Even acknowledging this flaw, there's a valid reason (simplicity) to design it this way.

"Be kind. Don't be snarky."

I don't get it, what's the difference between "got or don't" vs "it depends"?

The allocator’s output is only two: either you get memory or you don’t. To quote GP

> Every function with an IO interface cannot be reasoned about locally because of unexpected interactions with the io parameter input

This means with IO interface is not quiet clear what WILL happen so it “depends”

The "metrics" is hilarious. The "before AI" graph looks like those meme about FAANG engineers who sit around and basically do nothing.

It's not the same because, with AI, they will likely be called anti-ai or anti-progress if they push back against it.

Don't mention AI, just point out why the code is bad. I've had co-workers who were vim wizards and others who literally hunt and pecked to type. At no point did their tools ever come up when reviewing their code. AI is a tool like anything else, treat it that way. This also means that the OPs default can't be AI == bad; focus on the result.

The thing I don't understand is that you keep bringing up your friends' experience in all your responses and in the blog itself. What about your experience and your success rate and productivity gain that you observed with AI agent? It feels like you yourselves aren't confident on your gain and must bring up second hand experience from your friends to prop up your arguments

the rust code in question is the example on the cursor landing page though

The current image on the landing page might be even worse. It just updates Message to MessageV1. Why would you pay money for what's a string replacement?

The comment on the right says it'll help the user with protocol versioning. This is not how you do that...

> Doing a presentation at another company? They've got an overly-aggressive firewall on the guest network

This happened to me lol. I copied a demo video from our landing page, and the host company somehow blocked our CDN, so the demo slide is just a blank page. Have to mouth the whole demo from memory, not too bad but it's really awkward.

Wow really life taldain from stormlight archive

> why do I call .deinit() on a structure before alllocator() call

This is explained right in the documentation about arena allocator. Arena allocator deallocate everything at once when it goes out of scope (with defer deinit()). You need to call .allocator() to get an Allocator struct because it's a pattern in Zig to swap out the allocator. And with this, other code can call alloc and free with out caring about the implementation.

This is just how arena allocator works and not related to Zig's design. You may take issue with how Zig doesn't have built-in interface and having to resort to this implementation struct returning the interface struct pattern, but I think the GP clearly explained the Why.

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