AI is stifling new tech adoption?

Post by saulpw » Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 8:59 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #418

saulpw wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The slowness to adopt IPv6 is because it's not a great design. Going from 32-bits to 128-bits is complete overengineering. We will never need 128-bits of network address space as long as we are confined to this solar system, and the resulting addresses are extremely cumbersome to use. (Can you tell someone your IPv6 address over the phone? Can you see it on one monitor and type it into a different computer? Can you r…

> extremely cumbersome to use. (Can you tell someone your IPv6 address over the phone? Can you see it on one monitor and type it into a different computer? Can you remember it for the 10 seconds it takes to walk over to the other terminal?) That's your idea of "extremely cumbersome"? 128 bit is exactly as hard as four groups of 32 bit.

Yes, it makes it untenable. There is no way I can remember 4 IP addresses at once.

Post by gradientsrneat » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 8:02 PM UTC

d_watt wrote: post #124

It's always been a thing with modes of encapsulating knowledge. The printing press caused the freezing of language, sometimes in a weird place* Where great documentation was make or break for a open source project for the last 10 years, I think creating new projects with AI in mind will be required in the future. Maybe that means creating a large amount of examples, maybe it means providing fine tunes, maybe it means…

That article is so good that it deserves its own top-level Hacker News post.

Regarding documentation: isn't the whole point of these LLMs to hoover up information in whatever form it's currently in and try to produce intelligible results? For SEO, things are going to get interesting, but software projects don't necessarily have such perverse incentives.

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