15 comments

  • functional_dev 13 hours ago

    Author here. I’m a huge FP snob (Rust/Scala) so using Go for this project kinda hurt at first.

    But as a solo founder, I needed speed. The main thing I learned is that LLMs write amazing Go code. It's so simple and boilerplate-heavy that the AI almost never hallucinates.

    Ended up building a distributed audio ingestion system that undercuts Twilio by like 80%.

    Happy to answer questions about the architecture or other things.

      honeycrispy 12 hours ago

      Rust isn't functional. It's an expression language.

        functional_dev 12 hours ago

        You are technically right, that is not a functional language. But it borrows many things from functional world :)

  • dfajgljsldkjag 13 hours ago

    None of this happened. The entire article is made up by AI.

      eterm 13 hours ago

      It's a shame, because there may well be a kernel of truth to some of it, but it's dipped so deep in LLMage that it taints the rest.

        functional_dev 12 hours ago

        English is not my first language, and you nailed it. I used LLM to "polish" it. Probably too much. But I am open for questions if you like :)

  • drivebyhooting 13 hours ago

    Are LLMs better at writing go because it is a simple language, or is it because there is just a lot more training data?

      functional_dev 12 hours ago

      Could be both. I have used LLMs quite heavily on Rust (at work) and Haskell at leisure. And it is much harder to MOVE FAST.

  • linkregister 13 hours ago

    The layout is broken on mobile Firefox. It looks similar to when CSS fails to load.

      functional_dev 12 hours ago

      That is strange. Just tried it on Firefox (Desktop), and it loaded fine. Any tips how to identify what is the issue?

  • canadiantim 13 hours ago

    Just a heads up but I don’t think your site is loading the css correctly for whatever reason. I’m just getting html when I load it

      functional_dev 12 hours ago

      What browser are you using? It loads up for me fine. Could you help me to debug that, please?

        canadiantim 10 hours ago

        So it’s funny on chrome and safari I only get the html, no css.

        But on brave it loads perfectly.

        I’m on an iPhone 16.

        I will add that I do appreciate the perspective your article gave me, so thank you for writing and sharing! Will have to finally actually explore Go

          functional_dev 9 hours ago

          It's probably SRI. I disabled "Email Address Obfuscation" in Cloudflare. It was probably misfiring.

          functional_dev 10 hours ago

          Thanks for follow up!

          I suspect this is cloudflare doing some auto-minifying. It injects the "integrity" tags and something does not match. I will try to turn it off.

          Thanks again!