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MangoCats@feddit.it 5 weeks agoI think we’re barreling towards a place where remotely complicated software becomes a lost technology
I think complicated software has been an art more than a science, for the past 30 years we have been developing formal processes to make it more of a procedural pursuit but the art is still very much in there.
I think if AI authored software is going to reach any level of valuable complexity, it’s going to get there with the best of our current formal processes plus some more that are being (rapidly) developed specifically for LLM based tools.
But eventually you will hit a limit. You’ll need to do something…
And how do we surpass those limits? Generally: research. And for the past 20+ years where do we do most of that research? On the internet. And where were the LLMs trained, and what are they relatively good at doing quickly? Internet research.
At the end of the day, coding is a skill. If no one is building the required experience to work with complex systems
So is semiconductor design, application of transistors to implement logic gates, etc. We still have people who can do that, not very many, but enough. Not many people work in assembly language anymore, either…
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s a lost tech. We still use the same decades, even century old, frameworks
They’re not perfect. But they are unchangeable. We no longer have the skills to adapt them to modern technology. Improvements are incremental, despite decades of effort you still can’t reliably run a system on something like RISK.