Nix wrote half of my debugger

(fzakaria.com)

77 points | by ingve 2 days ago ago

5 comments

  • tecoholic 19 minutes ago ago

    Seeing Nix these days is such a whiplash experience. We have fully deterministic systems and then we have LLMs. God ;)

    • bentcorner 10 minutes ago ago

      I use an agent to author my nix config - personally I don't have the determination to have picked Nix up entirely on my own so I find it to be a godsend. I can code review config changes and keep it all in git - also makes it easy to pick up the entire config and deploy it on a different machine.

      • weavie 2 minutes ago ago

        Plus if it messes up, you can just roll back.

  • __MatrixMan__ 14 minutes ago ago

    I find myself moving more and more non-build things into nix builds because I don't want to roll my own cache invalidation. Seems like this is yet another reason to do so.

  • Cyph0n 3 hours ago ago

    Dude, this is amazing stuff. Farid really is putting out banger after Nix banger haha. This sounds like a mini/less capable Antithesis runtime, but running on your machine.

    Curious: how does Rewind deal with randomness?