There's a new serif in town.

> It's really funny how much better the AI is at writing python and javascript than it is C/C++. For one thing it proves the point that those languages really are just way harder to write.

I have not found this to be the case. I mean, yeah, they're really good with Python and yeah that's a lot easier, but I had one recently (IIRC it was the pre-release GPT5.1) code me up a simulator for a kind of a microcoded state machine in C++ and it did amazingly well - almost in one-shot. It can single-step through the microcode, examine IOs, allows you to set input values, etc. I was quite impressed. (I had asked it to look at the C code for a compiler that targets this microcoded state machine in addition to some Verilog that implements the machine in order for it to figure out what the simulator should be doing). I didn't have high expectations going in, but was very pleasantly surprised to have a working simulator with single-stepping capabilities within an afternoon all in what seems to be pretty-well written C++.

> I have successfully vibe-coded features in C. I still don't like C.

Same here. I've been vibe-coding in C for the sake of others in my group who only know C (no C++ or Rust). And I have to say that the agent did do pretty well with memory management. There were some early problems, but it was able to debug them pretty quickly (and certainly if I had had to dig into the intricacies of GDB to do that on my own, it would've taken a lot longer). I'm glad that it takes care of things like memory management and dealing with strings in C (things that I do not find pleasant).

But I have been vibe coding in C. Created a parser/compiler for a subset of the C programming language that compiles to microcode for a novel computing architecture. Could I have done this on my own? Sure, but if I did I would've probably have done it in OCaml. And it would've taken me a lot longer to get it to the point where it is now. I think the advantage of vibe coding this (at least for me) is that I would have a hard time getting started due to procrastination - and I'd have a hard time keeping interested if there wasn't something working (yeah, maybe I'm a little ADHD, but aren't we all at this point?). Vibe coding it got me to something that was working pretty well in a surprisingly short amount of time which tended to make me more engaged without losing interest and attention. I didn't have to get caught up in remembering the intricacies of creating a makefile to build the code, for example. That's one of many places where I can get bogged down.

So basically bring a burner phone.

As is mentioned in the article, depends on when they bought their DRAM contracts. If they were in before this then they'll be fine for a while.

Or the Hunt brothers and silver which was just a few years before that.

How'd that turn out? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#:~:text=On%20J...

The current Justice Department? You're kidding, right?

Google just need to give the US regime a solid gold award

for what? unimportant

Altman was already unpopular. After this will he be able to show his face in Silicon Valley?

I don't think Ellison is popular, but he seems to be doing fine with all his billions.

And all these data centers they want to build around the country. When consumers can’t get devices they want maybe they’ll fight even harder against these data centers being built in their back yard. He’s not making any fans with this move that’s for sure

I think it would be more like 5-7 years from now if they started breaking ground on new fabs today.