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Re: Ray Tracer in SQL

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In the Age of AI coding, this lovely cool demos are no longer interesting anymore. I use to appreciate them by the craftsmanship and hacking aptitude they required, but now AI took away that joy of watch this for me.

Coding with AI is not much different from coding without AI, just faster and with slightly less typing. But you still have to organize the work and split it into small items. If you ask a model to implement a ray tracer in SQL, it can do something one-shot, but it won't be as satisfactory as with an engineer.

Re: Ray Tracer in SQL

#23
post #8

In the Age of AI coding, this lovely cool demos are no longer interesting anymore. I use to appreciate them by the craftsmanship and hacking aptitude they required, but now AI took away that joy of watch this for me.

Yeah. Remember when that guy made Doom in TypeScript types? That was incredible. This feels shallow and dull. Interesting idea and cool that ClickHouse -- a primarily human made piece of software -- can even do this but I agree it no longer does it for me.

Do you really think AI can make Doom in TypeScript types?

Re: Ray Tracer in SQL

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. Remember when that guy made Doom in TypeScript types? That was incredible. This feels shallow and dull. Interesting idea and cool that ClickHouse -- a primarily human made piece of software -- can even do this but I agree it no longer does it for me.

Do you really think AI can make Doom in TypeScript types?

Yes: because it will simply steal (rather, has stolen) this guy's genuine, human, work.
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