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Engineering over AI

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Re: Engineering over AI

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Post by ben_w »

thfuran wrote: post #9
tjr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl... What was missing from the 1990 Web? The original Web did not effectively support the one-paragraph idea. A reader who encountered a Web page containing only one paragraph would have been startled and wondered if the page had been left unfinished.

How startling would that really be? Seems like half the internet claimed to be under construction.

If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any

Re: Engineering over AI

#12

Post by throwup238 »

ben_w wrote: post #11
thfuran wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How startling would that really be? Seems like half the internet claimed to be under construction.

If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any

> If you had a dialup modem, like mine, that only ever got 1-2 kilobytes per second despite being theoretically 56k, pages did sometimes stop loading in the middle without any [cuts off]

Are you still using it?

Re: Engineering over AI

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Post by airstrike »

I feel like this is both very right but also the million dollar question?

I don't think others necessarily quote-unquote "lost focus" on this problem, but it's not exactly easy to solve correctly, so in the meantime it's easier to create something with the next best approximation.

Re: Engineering over AI

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Post by myhf »

tjr wrote: post #4
rising-sky wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the bottom of the page, in the footer, there's this text: > Half-baked ideas for a better future. Maybe the article is intentionally supposed to read like that?

https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl... What was missing from the 1990 Web? The original Web did not effectively support the one-paragraph idea. A reader who encountered a Web page containing only one paragraph would have been startled and wondered if the page had been left unfinished.

But this isn't a one-paragraph idea, it's 10 paragraphs suggesting that there will be an idea, then one paragraph suggesting that there has been an idea.

Re: Engineering over AI

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Post by katdork »

Typo of "codebase" as codebae: This is also the reason why the higher context window doesn’t matter. Even if you could feed your whole codebase into an LLM, you’d still face the same problem of missing the structural relationships of the codebae.

Re: Engineering over AI

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Post by bitwize »

katdork wrote: post #15

Typo of "codebase" as codebae: This is also the reason why the higher context window doesn’t matter. Even if you could feed your whole codebase into an LLM, you’d still face the same problem of missing the structural relationships of the codebae.

Tbh, "codebae" describes the most compelling use case for AI. Relevant Stallman story:

https://stallman.org/articles/made-for-you.html

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