Thomas Goorden

Uit dezelfde tijd dat ook de Raad van State nog dik OK was volgens BDW.

Ge bedoelt “het heilige principe van de scheiding der machten”, toch? Uit 2009:

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Same here! We'd been staring at geometric multiplications all this time and then someone goes: “By the way: Adding two points together can only result in the point in between, anything else doesn't work.” Oh. Right!

“Not all feminists.” Die hadden we nog niet gezien.

Oh noes, call the emotional police. (But in all honesty, I am mostly perplexed with the emotional response to even the slightest criticism on AI-glorification.)

A technical college basically. (It's at Howest, if you want to look it up.)

Could be, who knows. You do know we are on a public "microblogging" website, right?

Fun fact: When automated refactoring ("old style") was originally introduced, it also seemed like magic. But after a few years, we realized it didn't automagically make better code.

You do realize that this "refactoring" you are looking at is still just a stochastic result of training on those old methods? And yes, it is impressive and better than what we had. My *only* point was that mimicking refactoring isn't the most impressive demonstration. Why are you all so dense?

Uh. It's just based on personal and extensive experience. If you don't agree, that's fine, do you. But anyone pretending they have “the” balanced view on anything, is an ass, guaranteed.
(But still, defending your position is valid. Just chill dude.)

Oh no. I just got old and had to spend a lot of time in shitty situations.

I literally don't care about your job, your LinkedIn page, or just about anything. You've said nothing interesting and tried to “get” me in the dumbest way possible. Just go away.

I've definitely earned the right to be grumpy, yes. 😉

Maybe. To be clear, I am not making a luddite argument, this stuff is never going away and *can* be (moderately) useful. But apparently pointing out the massive negative effects of the current handling of this tech is “spoiling the fun” and not allowed? Meh.

But this is basically my point: Software that can be built rapidly with AI, can be built rapidly *again*. Why spend the effort improving, if you can wipe the board clean with lower costs?
For large systems though (like those COBOL beasts), none of that works though. There is no first iteration.

Inertia, basically. Most often, those are banking systems or similarly large stuff, which is *insanely* hard to port, often there aren't even any proper business cases (docs) left. (I should know, cause I architected a few of such massive migrations.)

Of course. Now, by subtweeting, the context of that comment got lost entirely, but what does it matter? Let's just have a random hatefest.

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Turns out that our national courts proved me right though 😉

But keep creeping! This is fun!

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Sure “doll”, but my reaction was about a very specific statement, which of course gets completely lost in this loser sub-tweeting BS. If you don't agree, why not just reply in thread? This is just pathetic.

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Oh, look at this little detective*. 😂 Do you realize that some people work as independents for most of their career and don't actually have to apply for jobs or spend time keeping LinkedIn up-to-date?

*: Actually, you're just a creep.

Also, coding is much, much more than just refactoring.

Conveniently leaving out 20 year of professional software architecture experience before become a journalist, I see.

Slow clap. 👏 Perfect online bullying behaviour.

To be fair, I was a professional software architect for 20 years, before I became a journalist. But that's inconvenient information for you creeps, obviously.

Uh, exactly what a basic programming book on refactoring will tell you. Note that modern IDE's have been able to do major refactoring for decades. (E.g. going back to early versions of Eclipse.)

But go off, buddy.

Exactly what triggered this post, but I've been thinking about it for a while now.

And no, writing prompts doesn't make you an author any more than ripping labels off of wine bottles makes you a wine producer.

If someone puts a different label over a cheap bottle of wine to change its perceived value, we call that scamming.

Why do we not call it scamming when people put their own personal name (or a fake name) as the author on AI generated text/visuals/...?

And here's the amazing thing, even the European Central Bank essentially says the same thing: www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpo...

Not pulling any punches, check out the “hot house world scenario”.

Well, yeah, it feels like a mathematical consequence of the monetary system we're in. But collapse is also perfectly possible mathematically. In this sense, it might just another death cult, just like the fossil fuel industry.

So no, I am not confident. But I can see why we'd be surprised.