[thih9]

> Within a very short period of time all code will be AI code.

This is unlikely. Perhaps “most code”, but not “all”.

People can overwhelmingly shift to a new technology, but the old one usually remains in use, even if niche.

[skeledrew]

Yeah there are still people out there hand-crafting Assembly. Not so sure about punch carding though; maybe some extreme retro getup.

[thih9]

If we don't count player pianos, punch cards originated in textile industry and jacquard looms[1] - and many jacquard loom users rely on punch cards even today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:Indus...

[skeledrew]

OK, but the context here is computer programming. Unless you're arguing that a jacquard loom is a computer.

[thih9]

To me the context is new technology that replaces the old, but the old is still more practical in some applications.

[jjgreen]

Once most code is AI slop, then the training data is tainted -- you know what happens when you eat your own crap ...

[sakjur]

If that happens, I hope we label it dysentropy.

[skeledrew]

> eat your own crap

Technically you do. Every living thing eats it's own and every other living thing's crap. Just that it's recycled - through other living things - crap (does it stop being "your own" when it's processed by another?).

[thih9]

What if you crap so much and your craps are so pervasive that you cannot find anyone else’s crap but yours - unprocessed, or with very little processing.

[skeledrew]

That too is covered. There are even living things that need to feed on the crap of their own kind to survive. It's all possible in the web of evolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia