PipfordOh god this is so believable. AI bros and Business Leaders have no interest in softer sciences, so they've Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing their googly-eyed autocomplete is a real boy
Corb_The_Lesser@anandamide I remember being fed pitches and nice lunches up and down the roads between Palo Alto and San Francisco about how Java would change the world. (Really.) That didn't happen, either.
J3RN 
@Corb_The_Lesser @anandamide For what it's worth, Java did change the world. Just probably not in the way they were saying.
Curious to know what promises they were making.
@j3rn @anandamide It's been a long time but, as best I can recall, it was a lot of fulfill the glorious promise of technology for all, and flying cars,too.
I'd agree Java changed tech but I don't think tech ever changes people, but just gives us new ways to do old things.
@Corb_The_Lesser @anandamide That's a great insight! Java gave us memory safety, but in the end we used it to build banking systems and insurance systems and all the other things we were building before.
NKT@j3rn @Corb_The_Lesser @anandamide And if we *had* built flying cars, they'd have run on Java, but we didn't.
Darryl Green@Corb_The_Lesser @anandamide
A pitch that attracted the $ was "write once run anywhere". There was FOMO. If it really were the "one" then nothing else would be being run anywhere.. We need to get on board! Then keep the hype alive. Java as another compiler and runtime with ideas above its station could be mediocre (but well funded) and succeed. Blockchain ledgers for everything are unwieldy and the hype only gets things so far. LLM all the things is a lot more like the latter.
A pitch that attracted the $ was "write once run anywhere". There was FOMO. If it really were the "one" then nothing else would be being run anywhere.. We need to get on board! Then keep the hype alive. Java as another compiler and runtime with ideas above its station could be mediocre (but well funded) and succeed. Blockchain ledgers for everything are unwieldy and the hype only gets things so far. LLM all the things is a lot more like the latter.