A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
James Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft.
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James Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft.
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. However:They didn’t document this (!)Their implementation doesn’t actually save memoryThe implementation can have a prohibitively high CPU costThis feature works by…
A look at how C allows you to handle memory
New devlog about the develpment progress of the game Metroplex Zero.