The Cost of Software
jeferson.me
Software is costly and mechanical parrots won't make it cheaper. Do you want to know why?

As we continue developing our software, we accumulate a growing amount of technical debt just to keep the system running. But I believe we are on the brink of an even larger issue. Cognitive debt.

Hope you enjoy this reading, all feedback is welcome.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      You can try to reason about it which is an arguable improvement from the former engineer you can’t get ahold of anymore. So you can could see that it triggered a node associated with c++ when it generated this string of tokens or compare it other generations to map it to a type of call.

      Where it doesn’t compare to a human engineer at the moment is quality or novelty.

      • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        But you can’t?

        It didn’t reason its way down a branch, it made coinflips all along the way. So its not actually thinking, just weighted coin flips. There’s no ‘why’ it chose a branch. Just the result of a coin flip.

        You can’t ask a coin why it chose heads. You can unroll the physics of it all day long til the cow comes home. But it still doesn’t help you on the next one.