alt Hacker NewsSay whatever but without AI and agents, no one in AWS would have thought of building this given the huge amount of services they have. Humanly, possible but very very costly. Not saying has not happened before but fakecloud and localstack etc? That moat is gone.
I am shocked TBH that this is the new normal. Agents writing code in one of the most difficult to use languages. And ugly as well TBH, it pokes into your eyes. Subjective I know but it is a horrible language for humans.
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Rust is beautiful! The way all the stdlib traits slot into each other satisfies a very particular itch
yeah for all the faults with 'a.i' certain things have just become possible because of it.
We are talking about a company with ~3T market cap, right?
As a human, beep boop, I find Rust a beautiful language.
> Agents writing code in one of the most difficult to use languages
Arguably, languages with strong static guarantees are exceptionally effective for LLMs since they're much quicker to provide feedback to the LLM than a dynamically typed language (which only fails once you actually run it - often several times to find the actual problem). You also get very well-designed build error messages rather than having to parse unstructured stderr output, etc etc.