There is likely a mass of devs that is probably, hmmm, 10x the number of Nix devs from over a year ago, who know exactly what Nix offers and why it is cool, but couldn't be bothered to master it until AI came along and basically "solved the problem".
So I'd expect AI to rapidly accelerate Nix adoption. Hopefully, because it is amazing.
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.
LLMs can be deterministic too! People just don't bother because the applications of this aren't widely known yet. See https://lukechampine.com/repligraphs
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.
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.
There is likely a mass of devs that is probably, hmmm, 10x the number of Nix devs from over a year ago, who know exactly what Nix offers and why it is cool, but couldn't be bothered to master it until AI came along and basically "solved the problem".
So I'd expect AI to rapidly accelerate Nix adoption. Hopefully, because it is amazing.
Seeing Nix these days is such a whiplash experience. We have fully deterministic systems and then we have LLMs. God ;)
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.
Plus if it messes up, you can just roll back.
LLMs can be deterministic too! People just don't bother because the applications of this aren't widely known yet. See https://lukechampine.com/repligraphs
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.
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?