Is dvui something you want to see? Although the use of backends are still c based, the core part of the gui seems written fully in zig rather than a binding from a c library.

https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui

“Even if you are paying, you are the premium product.”

I think we need to stop saying that quote since the existence of subscription. Can you stop Google from tracking you or let you define your “algorithm” if you have purchased YouTube Premium and one of the Google Drive plans? I really doubt.

I think it is the value of the company matters. If their intentions is to keep investors happy, the users are always the product no matter paying or not. By contrast, there are quite a lot of free open source software doing the same for free, but the users still remain user.

I guess many tutorials are not made for absolute beginners and they have assumed you have learnt the basics before jumping into their topic. For example, if you never learn programming and set up an ide before, it has no way you can learn OpenGL as your first tutorial, and all the syntax and commands will look alienated.

And you can't write every document with an assumption that the reader knows nothing. Each document would end up the size of a phone book if you explained every single piece of technology used and provided tutorials for them.

Knowing where to jump in your stack is a tricky question, though.

OpenGL is not so bad because the API is quite stable. WebGL in particular is great because there's literally zero setup you need to do for executing it.

Integrating with Linux/Windows display surfaces is disgusting however. KMSDRM is way, way better than the nightmare that is X11 and Wayland.

Probably they were just chasing the hype because the word AI appeared in the browser, considering the news mentions “browser with AI features”. So does their acquisition news.

I hope I am wrong.

So… what does it prove? Do you learn anything?

Just because Alpha go exist back in the days, go competition doesn’t go away. Just because ChatGpt exists these days, it doesn’t replace our desires of learning something more interactively.

ChatGPT can answer many things, but it seems miss the point if you use it for a website designed for learning.

Fr, what is the “other stuff” you all claims to be? Since I have heard many people who heavily use AI claimed to save time for “other stuff”, but I never heard about what is their “other stuff”.

If what you actually want to do is not really related to shader, there is a huge chance you have started your learning process in a wrong direction, which is a bit different to the definition of “being efficient”.

So tell me what you want to do.

They will just write more AI prompts.

There is no point where a vibe coder will put down their glasses and say “I will now write this code by hand”.

Literally no reason to write code by hand, ever again

Does being able to solve basic computer graphics problems mean ChatGPT can solve all computer graphics problems? If not, does that mean advanced computer graphics problems fit into the bucket of "things that are worth learning?"

Because if the advanced problems are worth learning, but the basic problems are not worth learning, how are you supposed to jump straight to learning the advanced stuff while skipping the rest? You'll inevitably end up needing to learn the basics first anyway.

This mindset will be the great filter for kids these days.

Yes, LLMs are sort of competent in many, many areas, but if you refuse to learn stuff the LLM can do, you will fail miserably to spot when the LLM is incompetent.