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Obviously we have the benefit of hindsight, but “do heavy objects fall faster” doesn’t seem like a stupid question to me in the same way that “do chimpanzees like crystals” does.

While that sounds like an interesting tidbit, it also doesn’t appear remotely true based off of the history sections in the wiki pages for microwaves and microwave ovens.

What are some examples of questions that at first seemed stupid yet became brilliant when connected with other seemingly stupid ideas?

Not really, although things may be trending in the wrong direction. Pick any “weird” current event and you can find much worse examples in relatively modern history. Just compare whatever you think of to the siege of Leningrad, for instance.

All of these articles about AI’s impact on engineering are so short sighted.

Software engineering is a means to an end. The computers need to do something and software engineering is how we’ve traditionally done that.

But it should be abundantly clear that this is no longer required. Before AI, engineers needed to care about every line of code. With current AI, engineers need only worry about larger architectural issues. But at this rate, even those concerns will be driven by AI. One can easily imagine a world where relevant architectural trade-offs are surfaced to prompters. We’ll live in a world very soon where no human will have to concern themselves with code.

So while the premise of this blog post may be true, it’s a bit like complaining that hopeless carriages don’t take to stirrups very well.

In school, we talked about “Dedekind cuts” but we never formalized the definition. Kind of disappointed now because your explanation is very simple and elegant.

But what if I want to?