The author presents a false dichotomy when discussing "Why Not AI".
... there are some serious costs and reasonable
reservations to AI development. Let's start by listing
those concerns
These are super-valid concerns. They're also concerns that
I suspect came around when we developed compilers and
people stopped writing assembly by hand, instead trusting
programs like gcc ...
Compilers are deterministic, making their generated assembly code verifiable (for those compilers which produce assembly code). "AI", such as "Claude Code (or Cursor)" referenced in the article, is nondeterministic in their output and therefore incomparable to a program compiler.
One might as well equate the predictability of a Fibonacci sequence[0] to that of a PRNG[1] since both involve numbers.
One might as well equate the predictability of a Fibonacci sequence[0] to that of a PRNG[1] since both involve numbers.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator