AI generated code has some fun side effects. Whilst generating a lot of code and testing it using Microsoft Visual Studio I had the odd experience of giving the AI model a line of buggy code, and it forthrightly states to replace this faulty line with this new line. On close inspection both lines are identical! Ha - in the AI world this is known as a “hallucination” - amusing but not the answer I was looking for. Other odd side effects of AI generated code include having unused “#include <...

During Q2 2025, I’ve been working in the following areas: Boost.Bloom The acceptance review for Boost.Bloom took place between the 13th and 22nd of May, and the final verdict was acceptance into Boost. Arnauld Becheler did an awesome job at managing the review, which was one of the most lively and productive I remember in recent years. Incorporating the feedback from the review took me the last five weeks of this quarter, but everything’s ready for shipping with Boost 1.89 (Aug 2025): R...

Most of my work during the first quarter of this year involved experimenting with things which haven’t yet reached the state where it would be interesting to discuss them. But there was a project that at this point is reaching its finish, and thus let’s focus on it. That project is AsciiDoc-based documentation for Boost.JSON. Previously the project used a setup that was not too dissimilar to that of many Boost libraries. Doxygen collected API reference docs from Javadocs comments in the proj...

Boost.Unordered When I’m not busy eternally grinding on implementing hashing algorithms, I’ll sometimes take a moment and help other Boost libraries. I enjoy being a kind of soldier of Boost. Deploy me to any library in the project and I’ll dive in and get results. This is actually how my involvement with Regex started and I’ve done this a couple of other times to fix some bugs in both Serialization and Optional. This time around, it was a library I’ve worked on previously: Unordered. Becau...

We continue to make exciting progress developing new libraries for inclusion in Boost. New Libraries Decimal Decimal (https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal) is a ground-up implementation of IEEE 754 Decimal Floating Point types in C++14, co-authored with Chris Kormanyos. In January we had our formal review for inclusion in Boost. Unfortunately, we were not accepted, but we were also not rejected. There were a lot of comments that we have addressed in the past few months, and many other op...