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The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code (generativeai.pub)
15 points by JelteF 22 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Lamports been banging this drum for a while.

Highly recommend seeing how a state machine in C can be converted to TLA+

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/video2-script.pdf


That was a delicious read.


> The Stoics talked about the hidden costs of luxury. “Every new thing excites the mind,” Seneca wrote, “but a mind that seeks truth turns from the new and superficial to the old and deep.” Were they talking about LLMs? Obviously not. Were they talking about JavaScript frameworks? Almost certainly.

LOL




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