In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and proposes the subtractive, constraining engineer as the discipline needed to keep systems comprehensible & stable.
  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Humans, generally, have a poor grasp of geometric and exponential curves.

    (This is why they believe in fairy tales such as compound interest.)

    lmao

    and it feels like i’ve ONLY worked with subtractive engineers.