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NoClaude · 9 Aug 2026

I'm spending more time fixing it's issues than I am making progress

ethin on Hacker News

In the thread “Is it all just vapourware?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Specific cases like SIMD optimizations.

Got in the way: Reviewing large code and fixing unspecified assumptions.

… (e.g.: I have had to repeatedly tell these models to use std::atomic_flag and not std::atomic<bool> for a project I maintain because for some reason I cannot fathom, they love, love using the generic std::atomic<T> template, and they love using std::atomic<bool> where an std::atomic_flag would be better). Just little things add up, and before you know it I'm spending more time fixing it's issues than I am making progress.