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by AnimalMuppet 379 days ago
The discussion is about algorithms automating writing software.

The human brain did not evolve to write software. It evolved to get a good enough answer fast enough to survive, not to solve the kind of problem that is involved in software.

Yeah, I know, the human brain is able to learn to do software. But that isn't what it evolved to do.