Post #1944164
2026-03-02 21:27 UTC
@jcoglan @nicuveo the point is:
When we’re used to a paradigm, and know it well, we quickly see the limitations of a new way. We know immediately what wouldn’t work, what we would loose, what is slow and bloated.
And sometimes those inefficiencies don’t matter that much.
We can’t (seriously) program the Game Boy in C. But for the next generation of machines, it was the way to go. With the time the generated code is a bit less bloated – but mostly it doesn’t matter: the CPU became fast enough.
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@pmorinerie@mastodon.xyz 2026-03-02 21:32
@jcoglan @nicuveo Now to be clear: fuck GenAI, and fuck the big corps that digest our own work and resell it to us. I just feel that the argument of ”AI-generated code is a mess!” may be weak. Sure it is – but maybe it will get slightly better, and for some use-cases it will matter less, and people will use it in non-critical or prototyping or throw-away cases, and it will have some value.