Anthony Moser

also means the code base becomes a ship of theseus where the replacement boards are statistically generated instead of cut to size

and i think this point that the definition of "maintainable" will change is accurate: people will respond to slop code they don't understand by just generating new code / more code

which means the relationship of people to each other is replaced by the relationship of a person to a machine

i think this is an important point - not just the way ai coding tools can affect an individual programmer, but the way it interrupts a social practice / a community of people making software

it's like carcinization but instead of evolving into crabs everything turns into colonialism

i wouldn't have to spend so much time hating on it if they weren't trying to put it into everything at once

easily one of the coolest maps i have ever seen

so i'm hearing we need to redistribute some things in addition to money and power

i would be furious

Competence demands at some level that you acknowledge the existence of objective reality, and that's ultimately unacceptable to the collective make believe

Them: You've got the trembles. If you don't wrestle your trembles to rages, ally, the nemesis'll nullify *you*.

Their chatbot: you didn't just nullify the nemesis -- you fathomed it in the trunks.

still a bummer though. sorry that happened

see if he shaved, then he'd stop being working class

that's a super interesting read, feels freshly relevant with the "ai" discourse

when you first learn how klingons handle commanding officers who stay around too long it sounds unreasonable,

I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses.

One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭

appreciate you catching it. i think the point still largely stands (he made extensive use of formal notation to carefully specify what he wanted, in ways that people didn't really do before, and it illustrates the purpose of formal specification/syntax)

but i do apologize for the imprecision

i skimmed this to confirm before i posted, but looking closer it seems like it might be more accurate to say his innovation was that he changed how notation was used by extensively notating how he wanted his music played, rather than specifically inventing new marks lvbeethoven.com/beethovens-l...

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Slopthoven: "in one of those sad keys, kind of slow"

this is what people mean when they say writing is thinking

on that last point: *the reason we have formal language and notation for things* is so people could more precisely specify what they meant in a certain context

Beethoven *invented new kinds of musical notation* to make sure people understood precisely how he wanted his music to be played

one of the big problems with the "we're shifting the nature of the work to specifying outcomes" is that it presumes you already understand the problem in sufficient depth to specify an outcome (in natural language, no less, which is by its nature imprecise)

this is a very good thread. the point of rough drafts is that by creating them, you *learn about the nature of the problem you are trying to solve* and your new understanding shapes your strategy

he really looks like he should be meeting somebody at a cafe to get a shaving cream can with a false bottom

That's a good heuristic

Philip Glass reading the comments

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “mean what you say and say what you mean” and “it’s better to hope than despair”

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"