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[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

Hot take, people will look back on anyone who currently codes, as we look back on the NASA programmers who got the equipment and people to the moon.

They won't understand how they did so much with so little. You're all gourmet chefs in a future of McDonalds.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Perhaps! But not because we adopted vibe coding. I do have faith in our ability to climb out of the Turing tarpit (WP, Esolangs) eventually, but only by coming to a deeper understanding of algorithmic complexity.

Also, from a completely different angle: when I was a teenager, I could have a programmable calculator with 18MHz Z80 in my hand for $100. NASA programmers today have the amazing luxury of the RAD750, a 110MHz PowerPC chipset. We're already past the gourmet phase and well into fusion.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

NASA programmers grow more powerful by the day. It’s only a matter of time before they reach AGI

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