Andy WingoMar 9

gerald sussman once said that programming is no longer constructive, building truths from truths, instead investigative, identifying probable behavior from unreliable libraries. anyway, llms,,,

https://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/international-lisp-conference-day-two

Show threadPer VognsenMar 9
@wingo I legitimately love and appreciate Sussman and his work, but even by the standard of his contemporaries and peers he's always had a highly specific, therefore narrow, view of programming. Go as far back as you'd like, e.g. in the 1960s most programmers were not building "truths on truths".
Show threadAndy Wingo
@pervognsen oh sure :) it is just a moment that i think about when someone comes with a generated piece of code that they are happy with but which no one knows anything about
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