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To me this argument confuses automation with autonomy. It’s like arguing that we’ve had self driving machines since the 1800s because we had trains that can tra
by gnarlouse 3y ago
To me this argument confuses automation with autonomy. It’s like arguing that we’ve had self driving machines since the 1800s because we had trains that can travel from the east to the west coast while navigating the terrain entirely on its own! Spoiler alert: they’re called railroad tracks.
- marssaxman 3y agoThat's a useful perspective: we can help ourselves imagine what the future experience of a self-driving car trip might be like by analogy to the familiar experience of a train trip. In the same way, we need not fear a future in which machines write code for us, as the previous commenter did, because we can expect that transition to rhyme with previous transitions involving tools which automated code generation in other ways. We can expect that the use of LLM-based tools will feel just as natural, once they have settled in, as the use of compilers and interpreters does to us today.
- gnarlouse 3y agoI am the previous commenter “stability” and “fragility” also rhyme