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AI Go bots not so superhuman after all (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I don’t see any of them play an if err != nil { return err } so they can’t be all that smart now, can they

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

the world would've been a better place if pike never got goog to greenlight his third attempt at neophp

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bit of a wash, tbh: I like that the “but simplicity!” computer touchers now write their trash code in a memory-safe language; it sure reduces the amount of extremely preventable issues by introducing some other extremely preventable issues.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So does Java. /me runs

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

as much as java is a nuisance (in oh god so many ways), I mind it less than go. far fewer lucky packet minefield explosions with it.

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