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by senordevnyc 36 days ago
Will never happen, for the exact reason that we’ve almost never done that for human output either.
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it is required now, or all civilization collapses.
Civilization collapses unless people stop being short-sighted and greedy, trying to cut corners whenever possible?

I know which outcome I'd put my money on.

You're going to have to expand on this one.
They are expressing the idea that AI is so effective that it will make human work redundant necessitating a decoupling of resource allocation as a reward for performing work.

I don’t agree, but that’s the thinking

No, that quality drops so low across the board due to flaws in AI coding that they only way to address all these flaws is to have mechanically checked proofs that the code actually works.
My reply was meant for another tangent. No idea how it ended up on this thread. Whoops
Another argument for less human-like AI then, I guess.
That’s literally just software though.
Keen observation. Maybe automation will come for the AI as well?
More that our attempts at using probabilistic machines to produce predictably deterministic outputs (AI -> process output) was always a fool’s errand; we should be using that probability engine to produce software that creates repeatable and predictable outcomes, instead (AI -> software, software -> process output).

The AI tool isn’t wrong, our use of it is. See the glut of OpenClaw users effectively deploying it as a glorified linter and Stack Overflow copier but without actually creating the sort of reusable artifacts (or consumer spending from comparatively high wages) that approach yielded from human developers.

There was not a renaissance to move back to Assembly when Java sucked. Instead more Java developers were created.