I'm currently watching the CMU Database Group Lectures to learn more about #database systems and design. And I just noticed how refreshing it is to learn this way and I somewhat miss being at a university, working into the depth of a topic. Work feels shallow in comparison.
Claude Sonnet 3.7 is the first #GenAI I tried out that actually produced usable code. The code is not pretty but it was the first time I was impressed by an AI system being able to produce non-trivial code and being able to adjust it to feedback.
I should stop using #python for one off scripts to convert data. The #rust ecosystem has a similar maturity. Building such scripts takes roughly the same time in both languages, but the rust system will finish the job order of magnitudes faster.
When your rust program feels slow you probably forget --release.