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.

  • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 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.