A couple of long walks around Queenstown last weekend.
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Robert O'Callahan
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- Two big things have happened that make tracing GC in programming languages a much worse value proposition than just a couple of years ago: * The price of RAM skyrocketed. * AI dilutes the productivity advantage of tracing GC. Bad news for Go/Java, good news for Rust/C++/Swift.
- OpenClaw users should be legally liable for everything their agent does. It's the only way to avoid a liability vacuum where bad to terrible things happen but there is no accountability because "the AI did it".A man in Australia asked his agent (Claude running on OpenClaw) to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a software vulnerability that let it book the class weeks further ahead than should have been possible. When the user then asked if it could move him up the
- I signed the "Pacing The Frontier" petition. A few thoughts: robert.ocallahan.org/2026/07/pacing…
- My tramping trip from Karangahake Gorge to Te Aroha last weekend. robert.ocallahan.org/2026/07/karang…
