If they succeed the software will be more reliable with less memory issues that are very likely significant security issues at least some of the time.
When we've seen linux having a new significant exploit every other day now thanks to LLMs being better at weaponizing memory bugs this seems significant.
> False, it creates consumer demand for inference chips, which will be badly utilised.
There are so many CPUs, GPUs, RAM and SSDs which are underutilized. I have some in my closet doing 5% load at peek times. Why would inference chips be special once they become commodity hardware?
The annoying thing about that proposal is having to use 16 but code units instead of 8 bit. I hope the stringref proposal can get beyond phase 1 because that does strings right imo.
Only contrast I see is that he thought it was much more of a corner case which turned out to be not that true anymore since everyone started using claude code.
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