But there is an intellectual community, it’s just about those pesky prompts, loops and harnesses.
The assembly community is not thriving, and an arithmetic community is not a thing.
It’s a lacking metaphor, sure. But it points to how these processes have happened many times before.
The author disses these new concepts as “shallower”, but in reality they reality they’re just newer.
What they consider deep discussion of compilers (as if that’s a big part of software engineering and not a niche that interested 0.01% of them) is the result of decades of building the field.
Will AIs build a deeper field or act differently, I do not know. But it feels like the author is mostly discussing the current state of the world, and to me that states feels as if it’s just a repeat of history.
The assembly community is not thriving, and an arithmetic community is not a thing.
It’s a lacking metaphor, sure. But it points to how these processes have happened many times before.
The author disses these new concepts as “shallower”, but in reality they reality they’re just newer.
What they consider deep discussion of compilers (as if that’s a big part of software engineering and not a niche that interested 0.01% of them) is the result of decades of building the field.
Will AIs build a deeper field or act differently, I do not know. But it feels like the author is mostly discussing the current state of the world, and to me that states feels as if it’s just a repeat of history.