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Mythos is either dangerous or not. We are taking dangerous to mean that the number of vulns it finds will be much greater than bugs found with available tools.

Since mythos found only one additional vuln, and since x+1 is not much greater than x, it follows that mythos is not dangerous per the definition above.


It doesn’t follow because the results for curl don’t necessarily generalize to other codebases. It’s evidence against Mythos being particularly dangerous, but it’s just one datapoint.

It doesn’t invalidate the other security bugs Mythos allegedly found in other codebases.


I played so much gtoons. I remember meeting berniefoo in a MSN group and being starstruck.

Recommend joining the discord linked in gtoons.app; announcement coming soon.


Rest of industry: OK we need to set up our agent harness, write our SOUL.md, config permissions, skills, mcps, hooks, env...

Matz: gem env|info and find should do


"plansturbation" is a real industry, there are tons of successful YouTubers that sell millions of dollars in tutorials, courses, books, etc on how to setup your productivity harness


Makes me miss Ruby. Been in node typescript recently. Everything is a callback returning a promise in some weird resolution chain, mapped and conditional types, having to define schemas for everything and getting yelled at by lsp all day... Oh then you gotta write react components and worry about rerenders and undefined behavior caused by impurity in state, npm, arcane .json configs

Versus active record, mvc, yaml configs, bundler, beautiful syntax, robust and trivially extendable stdlib, amazing native debugging and cli docs out of the box, everything out of the box if you're using Rails

I do not understand why it becomes increasingly irrelevant, especially in web development. I kinda get scripting--bash and python tend to run everywhere


> Everything is a callback returning a promise in some weird resolution chain

Care to provide some examples of this? This hasn't been my experience, in general.


Processing async messages received over a socket with multiple namespaces.

Any async chain really where the steps are in a pipeline


Spot on. The worst thing is digging through 500 lines of nested JSON just to find one tiny type mismatch that broke the build. Most diff tools make it worse by showing 100 changes when 99 of them are just whitespace noise. Really makes you miss the simplicity of Ruby/Rails.


Lack of static types is one of the main reasons. Trying to decipher a complex ruby on rails codebase is unnecessarily difficult compared typescript. The tooling is also shit unless you use Ruby Mine.

An absolute shame given how good the functionality is baked into RoR.


I think the only thing you need is grep and know what you are doing.


Skill issue


> getting yelled at by lsp all day

God forbid you get forced to fix bugs before they reach production.


This might shock you but vast majority of bugs are logical.


Sure but I like it when I don’t have bugs that can be detected by static analysis.


Not really slow since YJIT, I think 3.1?


YJIT is amazing but for me, JRuby and TruffleRuby were the real game changers.

For anything "slow" I can put it in Sidekiq and just run the worker code with TruffleRuby.

I have high hopes for ZJIT but I think TruffleRuby is the project that proves that Ruby the language doesn't have to be slow and the project is still getting better.

If ZJIT, JRuby or TruffleRuby can get within 5-10% of speed of Go without having to rewrite code I would be very happy. I don't think TruffleRuby is far off that now.


Ah yeah I'm only vaguely familiar with Go. Didn't realize the speed differential was this drastic.


Even with yjit it's still more than twice as slow as even Go, to say nothing of C# AOT, which depending on the benchmarks is like 4x as fast.


Care to expound on that? Maybe a reference to the relevant section?


Ctrl-F "neuralese" on that page.


You should just read the thing, whether or not you believe it, to have an informed opinion on the ongoing debate.


I did read it a while back. Was curious what parent was referring to specifically


March 2027 -> Neuralese recurrence and memory

> For example, perhaps models will be trained to think in artificial languages that are more efficient than natural language but difficult for humans to interpret.


I tried to write this function in Power Query (Excel hell). Gave up after an hour or so.


Lol even the name is crazy


Ha. I'm surprised it's not a CI job


That's me. Frankly, looking at just uninstalling VSCode because Copilot straight-up gets in the way of so much, and they stopped even bothering with features that are not related to it (with one exception of native browser in v112, which, admittedly, is great)


VSCode can be cleaned: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

(I prefer Emacs anyway, but VSCode is a worthy tool.)


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