So is this effectively a way for aws customers to more easily access Claude code?

Claude itself was almost from the very beginning available in bedrock.

Might be for enterprise customers (with slow procurement departments) who already have AWS accounts but not Anthropic ones.

So then they could use Bedrock, no?

A lot of tools, community and Anthropic’s, have zero support for Bedrock.

Anthropic’s offerings for Bedrock lag behind their main platform by months, maybe up to a year or more.

Bedrock is both more expensive, less feature complete, and less reliable in terms of raw volume of 500 errors.

A lot of really good reasons:

1) Higher level code is easier for LLMs to review and iterate upon. The more the intent is clear from the code, the easier it is for humans and LLMs to work with.

2) LLMs get stuck or fail to solve a problem sometimes. It is preferable to have artifacts that humans can grok without the massive extra effort of parsing out assembly code.

3) Assembly code varies massively across targets. We want provable, deterministic transformation from the intent (specified in a higher level language) to the target assembly language. LLMs can't reliably output many artifacts for different platforms that behave the same.

4) Hopefully, we are still reviewing the code output by LLMs to some extent.

In addition LLMs also make bugs, and debugging assembler is more difficult, wasting more tokens, thus more money.

A very big practical reason is also that assembler code would eat context like no other.

> 1) Higher level code is easier for LLMs to review and iterate upon. The more the intent is clear from the code, the easier it is for humans and LLMs to work with.

The counter-argument, and one that matches my experience is working at a lower level is actually beneficial for LLMs since they can see the whole picture and don’t have to guess at abstractions.

I'd add to that

1.5) Having a compiler in the loop that does things like enforcing type constraints (and in the case if Rust in particular, therefore memory safety guarantees) is really useful both for humans and LLMs.

Feel free to post a project of yours where you gave a bunch of prompts to an LLM and it produced a working application written in assembly without you having to check for anything

Is this a serious question or are you just trolling?

I get what you mean but I think if anything AI pairs extremely well with strongly typed languages that are at times cumbersome for humans, but decrease the latency at which AI can get feedback on its code. In my (very) limited experience Rust is an excellent target for AI codegen.

(I meant statically typed / high level of type safety here not strongly typed)

This is a Rust to CUDA converter so I guess it is for codes where the programmer wants it to function properly (Rust) and have good performance (CUDA).

It’s just a matter of different workflows for different users and application.

I'll bite:

Programming languages are tools for thinking. It's not clear that assembly code has the right abstractions to encourage the kind of thinking that programming large systems requires. After all, human intelligence found assembly insufficient and went on to invent better languages for thinking, why should artificial intelligence, trained on human intelligence, be any different? Maybe AI in the future will have its own languages for thinking, but assembly is likely not that.

I mean, AI is not good at writing x86-64 assembly code. Last time I tried (with both Claude and ChatGPT), the AI failed to even create basic programs other than Hello World.

Because when this idiotic hypemachinery finally dies an agonising, painful death, some of us still want to work with computers

I believe that I have learned cumulatively double in the past 10 years from YouTube compared to what I learned in 6 years of middle and high school. And I don’t spend 8 hours per day on YouTube.

Plumbing, react, combinatorics, real analysis, python, c++, cad, micro and macro economics, reinforcement learning, to name just a few of the things I learned through YouTube.

We don’t give enough credit to what we take for granted today.

2/last 365 days down. My Ubuntu nas is 0/last 365days down.

Come and give me your cash if you want resilience.

But you couldnt apply security updates because Ubuntu was doen

How about now?

Today I wanted to build a simple ui that maps time across 3 time zones.

After spending some time thinking about using it across my Mac and Linux machines, I just had Claude write an html file.

Nice, simple runs everywhere.

Local HTML files with embedded JavaScript are fantastic for mini portable apps. You can even load/save files with some finesse.

Simon Willison has mentioned this (portable html / js apps) before and has a collection online

https://tools.simonwillison.net

Yes it was. We were stuck on never-ending design and requirements discussions because writing the wrong code was too expensive.

Now if your design / requirements are wrong who cares? Tomorrow you will have a brand new stack.

Depends. If they arrive in an RV and just do one grocery run in a German chain during the their entire month of vacay, we could skip them.

You can’t find a spot for a 50 pound sack of rice or two?

So let me get this straight. Foreign tourist spend less money in your country than domestic tourists because the foreign tourist are driving in with an RV and living off of a fifty pound bag of rice during their vacation?

Fwiw, there are a lot of highly frugal people in eg the surfer/kiting community (example!) which do indeed spend pretty much nothing where they're visiting for their hobby.

And they do often smell and leave trash behind.

So I can imagine that being true if you're living in one of those hotspots... It's a hard topic though

Let me set this straight: My point is you have an incorrect idea of how much space a month of food (and it needn't all be rice; that just illustrates the point) takes up. You can readily fit it in an RV, especially a big one.

Before that flights will start being canceled, as prices will be prohibitively high.

Already happening. UK airlines are desperately culling flights, and have been doing so for the past month. The pace of cancellations is also increasing, with the last week seeing cancellation waves that from the outside look quite paniccy.