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I think its easy for us to think we can understand what a program is going to do when we're dealing with high level abstractions. I think if we really came to grips with everything…

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I think there are two ways to interpret this question, not sure which one you meant. Question one: if you don't remember being conscious, were you actually conscious? Seems the ans…

There's a lot of wisdom in this. In addition to reserving some capacity for when true high-value work comes along, I think software engineering is not the type of job that you can …

If students are allowed to use AI to accomplish their goals, then I think the real question is why should they go to an expensive university for four years to learn how to ask AI t…

The title may be needlessly aggressive. I think Rovelli could have framed this better by acknowledging there is a hard problem and then arguing that we have a better chance of reso…

I'm currently reading (and enjoying) "How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology" by Philip Ball. It proceeds from the bottom up: the first half is all about cells and small…

Yeah, I guess what goes around comes around. Bad if true though.

I don't think the author is missing this distinction. It seems that you agree with him in his main point which is that companies bragging about LOCs generated by AI should be ignor…

Between this and the debate about ideal method length with Ousterhout, my respect for Uncle Bob is plumbing new depths.

This is a cool idea. I wish something like this existed for C#.

Lots of good observations in this article. I think that barring the possibility that LLMs become able to generate perfect, bug-free code, the question of how AI-generated code can …

It's not a paradox, because there is nothing logically inconsistent in my definition, unlike the Berry paradox.

Whatever largest number you can express in your system, I can represent a larger one in only one bit, using the following specification. 0=your largest number 1=your largest number…

Feels like the answer is probably uncertainty about inflation?

It depends on the specifics of what was said. As the complaint states, OpenAI has yet to release the full transcripts.

Encouraging someone to commit a crime is aiding and abetting, and is also a crime in itself.

Perhaps it would be useful to define what we mean by "commoditization" in terms of software. I would say a software product that is not commoditized is one where the brand still ca…

I guess I'm lucky not to have worked at a place with a role for software architects who don't actually write code. I honestly don't know how that would work. However, I think I can…

Inheritance is not necessary, but then very few programming constructs are absolutely necessary. The question is does it help program clarity or not. I think that in some cases, us…