| I was debugging an issue the other day where either of sentencepiece or gRPC linked into a C++ program worked fine, but both at once caused a segfault before even getting to main deep in the protobuf initialization stuff in some arena management code and left a fairly mangled stack even pwndbg struggled with legible frames. It wasn’t trivial that combination was even the culprit. I’ve been around the block with absl before, so it wasn’t a total nightmare, but it was like, oof, I’m going to do real work this afternoon. They don’t pay software engineers for the easy stuff, they pay us because it gets a little tricky sometimes. I’ll reserve judgement on this new one until I try it, but the previous ones, Sonnet and the like, they were no help with something like that. When StackOverflow took off, and Google before that, there wide swaths of rote stuff that just didn’t count as coding anymore, and LLMs represent sort of another turn of that crank. I’ve been wrong before, and maybe o1 represents The Moment It Changed, but as of now I feel like a sucker that I ever bought into the “AI is a game changer” narrative. |