Comment by bcantrill
12 hours ago
That is honestly the highest possible praise -- thank you. And when this piece was starting to boil inside of me last night (triggered, I'm sorry to report, by an obviously LLM-authored guest blog entry from the Rust Foundation[0]), I messaged one of my colleagues: "Time to do what I do best: bluntly say what lots of people are thinking."
Glad those words proved prophetic!
[0] https://rustfoundation.org/media/how-the-rust-standard-libra...
“Not every one of those 11,970 carries the same weight, and the paper is careful about that rather than rounding it up.”
AAUGH IT BURNS
Right?! When I hit "That work was genuinely valuable" I literally hollered in exasperation.
For me it was “the results speak for themselves” and then simply a (large) number of automated tests run that never had human eyes.
Yes, quantity famously has a quality all its own, but perhaps not where correctness checks for something this central is concerned.