Toots from 2023-01-02
“But that didn’t happen, and some people may believe that the implication is that technical d…
“But that didn’t happen, and some people may believe that the implication is that technical debt is not a big deal. But the reason we made it through Y2K intact is that we didn’t ignore the problem.”
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Time to start saving for the Y2K38 project.
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@pa I hear that. It’s not going to be fun when “fixing a bug” becomes…
@pa I hear that. It’s not going to be fun when “fixing a bug” becomes a reproducibility crisis.
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“Unlike (human) children, though, these AI systems will be flying our airplanes, running our po…
“Unlike (human) children, though, these AI systems will be flying our airplanes, running our power grids, and possibly even governing entire countries. I would argue that the vast majority of Classical CS becomes irrelevant when our focus turns to teaching intelligent machines rather than directly programming them. Programming, in the conventional sense, will in fact be dead.”
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext