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.
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.