We've ruined everything just like all other generations, specially programmers. But it doesn't matter as those who follow us don't know any better. It's like we are walking though a forest and you suddenly ask if this tree is better than the one 10 minutes ago.
We use to talk a lot, now we talk to the young ones and each of their sentences seems designed to end the conversation. When they are older the next generation will be glad they don't know how to talk either.
Not so long ago everyone also knew how to sing and make music. Each porch its own songs. Then came screaming radio boxes which was wonderful and everyone sang along.. for a while. They gradually turned into door to door sales men only you couldn't slap the door in their face anymore.
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We've ruined everything just like all other generations, specially programmers.
Rather: programmers did warn very vehemently of the situation (and were particularly worried that with the release of the iPhone people accepted the golden cage). The problem was rather that people did not listen to these "nerds" (or at least did not act on their strong recommendations), but rather listened to "hipsters" and marketers.
I think the tech is advanced enough to recognize a user by their choice of words. Not to downplay the problem but currently a new user might start out with a few comments on the poor side then talk into the shadow realm indefinitely. In my not very humble opinion the asshole level of the poor comments can easily be lower than the asshole level of the response.
I wrote a fun solution one time where the document comes with a token that needs to mature for a duration depending on the user. Then, when your [say] 30 seconds are expired the input area is displayed but the submit button only appears if you input enough characters - where enough again depends on the user. If you are likely to make low effort postings I want at least 500 or 1000 characters worth of low effort. In even worse cases ill also hold the comment for moderation - until I get to it. (which might be a long time)
Modern coders will probably never experience the fun of rewriting the same thing endlessly only to discover how good some early version really was. Then some time after giving up someone else would make a similar thing go 20 times faster.
There is a lot of talk about AI data centers energy use but playing this game my laptop fan took things to levels I never hear before. If enough good enough software is <s>written</s> generated the power consumption is going to be amazing.
It also took forever to load but the game was good for the low 2026 standards.
Rhetorical goals about intention do not remake physics which comes with well understood constraints. Doctors intended to use bloodletting to cure illness and killed people instead. Words are not magical spells.
The machines these models run on are well known. They’re not black boxes. The results will be same-y despite the timeline, process, companies took to get there being different.
UPS trucks may carry different sizes and shapes of packages day to day but their upper bounds on total weight and geometry exist too.
A Honda and Ford can look different, but physical reality, whether the measure is user feedback (human biology exists is physical) or physics itself, still results in very same-y 4 wheels, etc etc.
What's strange to me is all the software engineers who ignore physics. All of our applied knowledge that gives rise to software engineering also constrains the outcomes. Our ability to sit down every day and arbitrarily slice up data in various ways is very much constrained by physics like everything else.
The easy money/endless hype era of ZIRP where SWEs failed up thanks to endless employment opportunities has resulted in way too many SWEs believing their efforts on some trivial shit like a JS framework, or some CSS designs is propelling humans into the future.
Nah, it's just physics as usual. You alls sensory memory is just parroting the crap it memorized.
We use to talk a lot, now we talk to the young ones and each of their sentences seems designed to end the conversation. When they are older the next generation will be glad they don't know how to talk either.
Not so long ago everyone also knew how to sing and make music. Each porch its own songs. Then came screaming radio boxes which was wonderful and everyone sang along.. for a while. They gradually turned into door to door sales men only you couldn't slap the door in their face anymore.
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