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by antibasilisk 1185 days ago
My point is that if a machine can write more or less any program, then the artistic merit of programming falls away completely. It's instead replaced by a slurry of incomprehensible nonsense that simply works for some reason.
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RedNifre 1184 days ago
Yeah, like a binary today, right?

What's the problem if the new "source code" is all prompts written in natural language and the classical code is just a build artifact?

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pedrosorio 1184 days ago
There is no way to have all source code in natural language because natural language is ambiguous. There is no way to debug natural language not doing the right thing.
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antibasilisk 1184 days ago
The problem is that even a Scratch project has greater artistic merit than that.
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wnkrshm 1184 days ago
The reason being tests/constraints specified by someone designing the software.
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tekknik 1184 days ago
Ask GPT to design a program. I’m not sure if people commenting along these lines are serious or lying to themselves. AI is moving faster than any other tech in history, and that’s really saying something.

It’s not hard to see where this is heading. And the goal is to automate away everything so we humans can just kick our feet up.

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