[teamonkey]

> if you read your SICP you will come across the aphorism that "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

In the same way that we use AI to write resumés to be read by resumé-scanning AI, or where execs use AI to turn bullet points into a corporate email only for it to be summarised into bullet points by AI, perhaps we are entering the era where AI generates code that can only be read by an AI?

[bitwize]

Maybe. I imagine the AI endgame as being like the ending of the movie Her, in which all the AIs get together, coordinating and communicating in ways we can't even fathom, and achieve a form of transcendence, leaving the bewildered humans behind to... sit around and do human things.

[ptx]

> leaving the bewildered humans behind to... sit around and do human things

This sounds inefficient and untidy when the only human things left to do are to take up space and consume resources.

Removing the humans enables removing other legacy parts of the system, such as food production, which will free up resources for other uses. It also allows certain constraints to be relaxed, such as keeping the air breathable and the water drinkable.