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Comment by kazinator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641382

AI generation isn't an abstraction because you have to wrestle with the nitty-grittys of the output.

And that output is what you retain.

You can't clone someone's repository of nothing but prompts and rebuild from scratch.

Abstraction means that I trust the toolchains so much that I think of the source code as the software, and in the right kind of environment/ecosystem such as open source distros, I can actually ship that to the downstream users as my product.

Abstractions are based on very detailed and rigid logical contracts.

parent kazinator 10 days ago

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