At this year’s State of Julia talk at JuliaCon, a significant part of the time was dedicated to talking about the effect and usage of agents to write PR to the julialang repository. This came as a surprise to me. I know about LLMs, I know that things are evolving fast, but since my institute doesn’…

[image] laborg: The things that drew me to Julia (two language problem, easy and simple syntax, nice repl) are features that have not aged well in a time of code generation by AI. That’s a good point. It’s a challenge that needs more attention. Julia is all about programmer productivity, and …

[image] laborg: The things that drew me to Julia (two language problem, easy and simple syntax, nice repl) are features that have not aged well in a time of code generation by AI. I’d be interested in seeing this elaborated a bit. In addition to what @ChrisRackauckas posted (I’d love to see m…

I’ve also thought a lot about the community impacts — as I was discussing this last night I mentioned the dying helpdesk channel to my wife and her response was “that’s a scary canary in the coal mine.” I think she’s right. I have a flashbulb memory from ~2003 where my friend had been debating som…

And there are also much broader societal and economic subjects, and some even directly related to Open Source Software (OSS). Certainly, without OSS, this kind of race and such a broad transfer of technology and knowledge across borders would not be possible in such a short period of time. Once, I …

[image] Kolaru: I voluntarily left out the details of the ethical problems with the use of AI, and the question of whether it is the right language to bet on for the coming AI age. They are both very important, but I believe that they go beyond the question that I would like to keep central here…

[image] ChrisRackauckas: That’s not quite true. Language benchmarks consistently show very good results for Julia. I’d be interested in seeing this redone. From what I can tell the gap narrowed dramatically in 2023 as the models got more generally capable, but then reopened as agents started …

EDIT: Split my post between the two threads, this one . [image] Nathan_Boyer: OP specifically asked for discussion to be focused on the community effects of AI. Indeed, and I did only make my post after some consideration of whether or not it fits. But in the end I decided that absolutely do…

I think AI’s impact is actually being overblown here, as strange as that might sound. Development entry barriers, an uncomfortable bus factor, rising environmental harms from computing…these all existed before the genAI age. Obviously AI has a large effect on these, but it’s worth remembering that t…

[image] ParadaCarleton: I don’t think it does. Lots of languages can claim to hit this sweet spot (C#, Kotlin, Swift, Go…) but Julia has very little in the way of type safety (only slightly better than Python). Well the way I use Julia, it is. We enforce JET tests on everything and full infer…

[image] Benny: I think AI’s impact is actually being overblown here, as strange as that might sound. Hey @Benny , Could AI be the “early Lotus 1-2-3” moment for us? If we miss this window, it could be the end of the story. It feels like not being part of the AI stack is already hitting the Com…

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