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by ndnxhs 2673 days ago
I read the article but didn't watch the video but isn't this essentially code generation/metaprogramming that we already have? In rails you don't have to write a fraction of the code that actually runs because its generated for you.

Also the AI part is very worrying. To me this sounds like a programming language where no one exactly knows what the rules are and every update to the training model could break everything. Imagine trying to debug an issue when there is no documentation or any knowledge on what is going on.

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Artificial intelligence is a superset of, not equivalent to statistical machine learning.
Ever since expert systems fizzled out and failed to deliver on their promise in the 80s, AI has been roughly equivalent to statistical machine learning and its applications. Everything else became just logic that needs statistical inference in order to work intelligently in a complex setting.
You could label anything AI. Might as well call my if statement AI
Re AI, check out the thread where I explain how we don't use training models or conventional machine learning. We use very deterministic.