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Btw SF Bay Area friends! I’ll be speaking at Curiosity Guild on Janjira, the tiny island fort that remained unconquered by 3 empires (Mughals, Marathas, Portuguese) over 3 centuries:
June 2, 7:30pm at public works!
Please attend you can! There will be 5 other excellent talks around the theme: Lock Horns
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lock-horns-tickets-1987294047994
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There’s so history in this one fort, it was built by Malik Ambar.
Ambar’s life story is fascinating in itself and could be multiple talks, he was born in southern Ethiopia, sold as a slave in Yemen and Baghdad, brought to India, managed to free himself, then he set up his own empire, the Ahmadnagar sultanate, and became the sultan.
@wordshaper the argument seems to be that if you use the infinite intern to _generate_ all that code, you can just make it _maintain_ it all, too.
Or because it doesn't suffer the biological weaknesses of humans, like the need to eat sleep or have a life, just make it rewrite it every now and again. Because its memory is perfect, it never gets distracted, and it can do a better job than we can, anyway.
Because, like, nothing like this has ever been tried before and hasn't been shown not to work before, either. Like CASE tools or graphical programming or whatever. Those never happened, those don't exist, what are you talking about...do you feel ok?
(Obviously the last two paragraphs are sarcasm.)
In fairness, I do think there could be an analogy to compilers. They were controversial for a time, too. But they got better, and even though we find bugs in them (at varying frequency), they're pretty much ubiquitous. Yes, some have to program in assembler occasionally out of necessity, and some do it just for fun, but it's not the norm for most professional development anymore.
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