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by stabbles 100 days ago
The TL;DR: code should be easy to audit, not easy to write for humans.

The rest is AI-fluff:

> This isn't about optimizing for humans. It's about infrastructure

> But the bottleneck was never creation. It was always verification.

> For software, the load-bearing interface isn't actually code. Code is implementation.

> It's not just the Elixir language design that's remarkable, it's the entire ecosystem.

> The 'hard' languages were never hard. They were just waiting for a mind that didn't need movies.
3 comments
tyleo 100 days ago
To put it another way: this article isn’t about the AI fluff, it’s about the two sentences at the top the author wrote themselves. ;)
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zeristor 100 days ago
Perhaps we need an AI to human transformer to remove the AI fluff?
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zeristor 100 days ago
It really is AI fluff.

Are people starting to write and talk in this manner, I see so many YouTube videos where you can see a person reading an AI written text, its one thing if the AI wrote it, but another if the human wrote it in the style of an AI.

As someone pointed out to me the way an AI writes text can be changed, so it is less obvious, its just that people don't tend to realise that.

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ModernMech 100 days ago
Someone had one of those AI videos on in the background and, I can’t explain it, the ordering of the words is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I’m starting to have a visceral physiological response to AI prose that makes it actually painful to listen to.

The video was a biography about some Olympian, and I could tell the prompt included some facts about her wanting to be a tap dancer as a kid, because the video kept going back to that fact constantly. Every few sentences it would reference “that kid who wanted to be a tap dancer”. By the 6th time it brought up she wanted to be a tap dancer I was ready to scream.

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InkCanon 100 days ago
Whenever I see a sentence of the form:

"X isn't A, it's (something opposite A)" I twitch involuntarily.

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arrowsmith 100 days ago
It's even infecting the highest levels of government:

https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/mps-are-almost-certainly-...

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dist-epoch 100 days ago
Man you are bad at TL;DR;-ing, you completely left out the main point article makes comparing stateful/mutating object oriented programming that humans like and pure functional oriented programing that presumably according to author LLMs thrive in.
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