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akiarie

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Opinion: Agents > Unix Shell

3 points·by akiarie·6 dni temu·1 comments

EWD361: Programming as a discipline of mathematical nature [video]

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Amdahl's Law for LLM generated code

6 points·by akiarie·2 miesiące temu·4 comments

"Subligence" – proposed coinage for LLM "intelligence"

4 points·by akiarie·2 miesiące temu·6 comments

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Human Scale Software vs. Open Source

posixcafe.org
3 points·by akiarie·6 miesięcy temu·1 comments

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akiarie
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Never mind, someone else already made this point: https://electric.ax/blog/2026/02/19/amdahls-law-for-ai-agent...
akiarie
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
True, but thing is that "artificial intelligence" is meant in the opposite sense. It's meant as something that is / will be equivalent to human intelligence, not as something useful but vastly inferior.
akiarie
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I propose that those of us who don't believe that AI is actually intelligence look for a term to refer to its "thinking" that isn't "intelligence", because this helps our weak minds keep things straight.
akiarie
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
C is still, by far, the simplest language that we have.

Although many newer languages are safer (with the exclusion of Rust, primarily by being slower) the same kinds of issues that are there in C are there in these languages, their effects are just harder to see.

People complain about C as though they know how to fix it.
akiarie
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
"Verbose" is the wrong adjective. Yours is a terse projection into a lower space, valid in itself, but lacking the power and precision of its archetype.
akiarie
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
This is such a beautiful distillation of everything I believe about the dangers of over-reliance on AI. I implore thee, good sir, to write a longer essay on this.
akiarie
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Obviously because he was one of the architects of the censorship regime of the late 2010s and early 2020s that nearly changed the internet into a three-letter-agency controlled space. If that isn't a risk for a censorship-resistant app, I don't know what is.