It's just a tool. But to some people, Rust is more like a religion than a tool and they let it define them to the point even the language maintainers disavow them.
At any point, if you provide any conterpoints or fair criticism towards the language objectively, just expect lots of fans to remind you that it is the best programming language ever created and yours is "unsafe" by default.
Sometimes when you have a really good tool, you want to share it.
This was the case with Linux for many people over many years.
FWIW I agree that the community has some frustrating elements, and that its a lot of dogma in comments, though I actually think that’s a fringe element.
As I said before, the ones boosting this everywhere to get as many tech folks on the train have either the following:
* Fully invested in those portfolio companies (no disclosures until IPO / acquired)
* Employees / Social Media Influencers at those companies with stock options which they are effectively paid boosters until they reach the vesting period.
* Frequently screaming the loudest and appearing on TV interviews, opinion articles spreading the scam further.
Just like the "Full Self Driving" scam that still requires a human behind the wheel, now we have "AGI" which still requires humans to supervise the AI agent to not make mistakes.
The tech folks don't question the euphoria and fall for it easily because they want to be on the next Google. But they could also be on the next Enron.
It’s already a joke to call the slop generators “AI”, so giving it another fake name won’t really make much of a difference any more. Nothing short of a miracle will be able to top the “creative marketing” we already have.
We already forgotten about this already? [0] Where was the open letter then?
Both companies (Google, OpenAI [0]) have defense contracts. At this point, the best course of action is to leave Google and OpenAI if you disagree with that (they won't).
Piggybacking on deeply integrated information and connectivity within society that was marketed and adopted under the guise of trust and an ethos of not being evil is pathetic.
Build, train, develop and maintain an AI for military if needed. When a government is scared of individuals they've clearly lost their edge.
At any point, if you provide any conterpoints or fair criticism towards the language objectively, just expect lots of fans to remind you that it is the best programming language ever created and yours is "unsafe" by default.
reply