[saulpw]

> This leads us to Platt’s Second Law of Computers: People like computers because computers do what they’re told. The job they actually perform is less important than their obedience in doing it.

This is why I loved computers as a kid. The adults and systems around me were capricious but computers had reproducible behavior.

[smackeyacky]

This is interesting. I became enamoured of computers in the 8 bit age because those blinking cursors seemed to offer endless possibilities. I don’t think I ever looked at one as obedient, more a willing but strict companion.

In a lot of ways the LLM era seems like a culmination of that illusion.