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You think hallucinating AI will improve quality control for software

In the article he does mention that it's not a 1 to 1 comparison

Yes of course there's only one way to have a succefull life and one should just follow what others before them have already done, in order to be successful, who needs to think for themselves and make choices, just read the financial papers make a lot of money and then when you are dead and forgotten by the world at least you will have all your money to comfort you in the afterlife

Lol I don't think people had to convince themselves of anything regarding the examples you sited, they let everyone know who they are on their own

The book cover makes me think that AI got involved in the book eventually lol

So basically you say the future of web would be everyone gets their own Jarvis, and like Tony you just tell Jarvis what you want and it does it for you, theres no need for a preexisting software or to even write a new one, it just does what's needed to fulfill the given request and give you the results you want. This sounds nice but wouldn't it get repetitive and computationally expensive, life imagine instead of Google maps, everyone just asks the AI directly for the things people typically use Google maps for like directions and location reviews etc. A centralized application like maps can be more efficient as it's optimized for commonly needed work and it can be further improved from all the data gathered from users who interact with this app, on the other hand if AI was allowed to do it's own thing, it could keep reinventing the wheel solving the same tasks again and again without the benefit of building on top of prior work, while not getting the improvements that it would get from the network effect of a large number of users interacting with the same app.

There is some value in the mistakes and limitations of older movies, I am sure if you look it up people who can explain it far better than me can give lots of examples, I saw a video once about the growing trend of analog horror where people intentionally watch older horror movies in older storage and display formats like VHS and CRT televisions, because in many ways the high def modern tv screens and 4K mastered prints actually take away from the atmosphere of the original movie that was made keeping the limitations of the technology of the time. Wes Anderson also talks about how watching the fur pattern constantly changing on the model of King Kong in the black and white stop-motion movie due to the puppeteers touching the model to manipulate it inspired him to do the same in his Fantastic Mr Fox movie

The World of Null-A is a book where the binary vs non binary way of thinking is a core theme

You do know that Lana Wachowski intentionally made it as bad as possible to tank the franchise cause she was forced to make the movie or the studio would get someone else to direct it right?

Yeah, the problem with in house frameworks and other such custom code that I face is that the people who wrote it are long gone, the documentation is scattered and many times out of date of the actual code and the code itself is kinda convoluted with little to no comments explaining it. I feel like if LLM's are properly trained on company code and the in house documentation data then this could be a big boon, so that instead of having to search for documents on company cloud drives and chat threads etc, you can just ask the chat AI and it will surface the relevant data to you faster than you could find it yourself.

I guess that makes sense if you are building something that needs a high degree of efficiency or sits closer to the metal, but most of the day-to-day tasks in corporate work aren't really in need of this level of mechanical sympathy, you can implement a slightly unoptimized logic and still have the system perform at an acceptable level, the bigger causes of latency will likely be IO like DB access anyway. And the bigger challenge when working on these tasks are the people problems, where you have to work with others who give vague requirements that they then keep changing after the work has already started while still holding you to the fixed deadlines, I wouldn't waste time writing the most elegant and per formant code in this scenario because it won't be appreciated by anyone and will lead to penalty for delays for me.

I agree with a lot of the points mentioned in this article. But one thing I'm not sure of is how does knowing the deep underlying fundamentals of CPU, memory, http etc . Help you be a better engineer, cause most engineers just work at a very high levels of abstraction and the languages and framerorks used at that level don't allow low level access for memory etc anyway. I mean you should not be clueless about these basic things buy I don't understand the day to day application of it, outside of academia.

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As someone who rarely visited pitchfork, this adds a lot of context, thank you