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type safety was always a guardrail for the human not the machine. humans aren’t reading code, so no need for it, ai can write everything in ASM & C, keep every

• justaboutanyone 10mo ago
  People are still going to read the PR regardless of how it was created.
  • oofbey 10mo ago
    In some environments this is a hard requirement, and will be hard to break. Places where the code is know to have big impact / blast radius and can’t be wrong. In other environments (most startups founded in the last six months) no human is ever reading any of the code. It’s kinda terrifying but I think it’s where we are going. And here I would argue having strict compilers is way more important.
    • tormeh 10mo ago
      That's fascinating and insane. Rust will help, but I can't see that working well. In my experience LLMs (even Claude) need quite a bit of handholding.
      • justaboutanyone 9mo ago
        Perhaps people will move to stricter programming languages try to counter the slop issues
• JoshTriplett 10mo ago
  > humans aren’t reading code, so no need for it, ai can write everything in ASM & C, keep everything fast and economical. This is a great plan; I would encourage everyone using AI to follow this strategy. The resulting smoking craters will have many job opportunities for human-written code that works.
• yjftsjthsd-h 10mo ago
  Surely AI also needs guardrails?
  • Rexxar 10mo ago
    AI needs heavy fortifications, moats and watchtowers around it.
• sunshowers 10mo ago
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