Edit: for the record, Fuck AI

Image of a bell curve.

The left side has a dumb man saying "Computers have magic elves inside"

The center has an angry nerd saying "Computers are deterministic logical systems. They give the same outputs for the same inputs"

The right side has a man in a hoodie saying "Computers have magic elves inside"
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago

Yeah that's a bit aspirational to my taste. Sure a script is just a list of instructions but when you start adding complex data and network hops and async work there are definitely "non-deterministic" behaviors that will emerge. Ultimately yes everything is ones and zeroes and there is probably an explanation but it will be something stupid and contrived.

As a developer you lay out a plan for what should generally happen but there's no way you can anticipate all the micro variations that happen in production. It's like any kind of real life plan, really.

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