They wrote ablog post about it

https://jewy.blog/2024/03/04/my-love-hate-relationship-with-lemmy

The biggest thing that PieFed has done is get up and running on public data with new accounts open to the public. This trial by fire will make it fail fast or become much improved. It seems that the main developer is quite experienced and has thought about architecture and improvements that have already been implemented. I think it’s promising for all of these reasons.

My biggest potential concern is that moderation tools have not been implimented yet (unless the were very recently).

As far as Python being difficult in larger systems, this can be mitigated by experience and good practice. But I tend to agree that Python is typically not the ideal choice for a large project.

That’s configurable. I’ve switched mine to Subscribed. I rarely ever look at All.

FYI https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

I wish I could change the default comment sorting

I’m going to try this after trying Intel’s new font that’s supposed to be made to accommodate for vision impairment.

https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono

From the main section of the paper published in Nature (which is available for free):

Using AlphaDev, we have discovered fixed and variable sort algorithms from scratch that are both new and more efficient than the state-of-the-art human benchmarks. The fixed sort solutions for sort 3, sort 4 and sort 5 discovered by AlphaDev have been integrated into the standard sort function in the LLVM standard C++ library

It seems they did find improvements for sorting variable sized list but only the sort 3, sort 4 and sort 5 algorithms got implemented in LLVM.

I agree. There’s a lot that automation can do that we generally know can be done, but don’t because the limited development resources are allocated towards easier payouts.

The only ways that this potentially falls short is if you want or need to change jobs and the market is looking for people that know the thing you don’t, you’re potentially at a disadvantage. Also you may be able to do a thing with the tools you know, but there may be different tools more suited for doing the thing that takes fewer resources or allows resources to be reallocated to other things that customers do care about.