Re: .5 against 0.5f

From	fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: .5 against 0.5f
Date	2026-10-31 08:30 +0100
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Paul pisze:
> On Fri, 10/30/2026 11:01 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 10/30/2026 10:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 10/27/2026 5:53 AM, fir wrote:
>>>> if ai generates me some functions it puts everywhere this f at the and
>>>> yet it add zeros so instead of .1 i got 0.1f
>>>>
>>>> and i obviously dont like it
>>>>
>>>> i write hvever some codes when i need speed so the question is may it give some difference?
>>>>
>>>> i mean .1 maybe can be treated as doube constants so mabe occupies some more memory (?) or uses some casting in coplutations (?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i doubt it probably it makes difference but im strictly not sure
>>>
>>> Never give up precision easily.  It will always come back to bite you.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> Tell the AI to stop the nonsense.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
> 
> You can do that. The trick to being a vibe coder,
> is knowing what to put in the prompt.
> 
> And this is why, even if you have "negative interest" in LLM-AI,
> you should at least do enough experiments to detect their dimensionality
> (their linear thinking when used in isolation and without
> a harness).
> 
> There is a big big difference, between what Fir is doing,
> and what professionals right now are doing.
> 
>    [Teaser]
> 
>     https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/18/microsoft-agentically-ports-copilot-runtime-to-rust-for-120k/5297549
> 
>    [Details]
> 
>     https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/migrating-the-github-copilot-runtime-to-rust-using-copilot/
> 
> On the one hand, the $120,000 worth of tokens, seems expensive. But
> on the other hand, the staff it would have taken to do the equivalent
> would not have been free.
> 
> Even an expert, he still made a mistake in corralling the machines
> and preventing them from "cheating". The non-determinism means
> you can never stop learning about what guard statements to add.
> 
> The code review is still the bottleneck, and lots of operations outside
> of Microsoft, do not see the gains of the "all-in" "experimental"
> approach shown in the above.
> 
> Even if you're not interested in such things, you have to track
> the capabilities, to understand how your ass is going to get kicked.
> For example, you may have a superior product to the upstarts vibe-coding
> an equivalent. But now you are going to have to do extra marketing
> to ensure your existing customers "do not run away".
> 
> The getcraft site has been making (what it claims are) equivalents
> to commercial applications like the Adobe suite and Microsoft Office.
> By no means are these equivalent, not even close. But what the
> existence of these things do, is they lead to customers "testing
> all sorts of shit" and diluting a lot of careful work you might
> have done to get where you are. I tested a couple of those getcraft in
> a VM, and there was "excessive CPU usage". The engine is Electron
> (for cross-platform usage).
> 
>     Paul
> 
i wouldnt say i do  vibe coding..i do normal coding wit a help of ai 
assistant..vibe coding may be something different than i do

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