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Books are just simple theses and themes with hundreds of pages of boilerplate
by heavyset_go 8mo ago
Books are just simple theses and themes with hundreds of pages of boilerplate
- simianwords 8mo agolot of people are saying this
- endymion-light 8mo agoThis is a great example actually. To me, a function is a single sentence within a book. It may approach the larger picture, but that sentence can be reviewed, changed, switched around, killed by an editor. Some programmers believe they're fantastic sentence writers. They brag about how good of a sentence they write, they're entire worldview has been built on being good sentence creators. Especially within enterprises, you may spend your entire life writing sentences without ever really understanding the whole book. If your worldview has been built on sentence creation, and suddenly there's a sentence creator AI, you're going to be deathly afraid of it replacing you as a sentence writer.
- artisin 8mo agoHit songs are just simple four-chord loops stretched over three minutes of synthetic boilerplate.
- thunderbong 8mo agoBoth the books and the song analogies are incorrect. In the case of code, the users for whom the programmes are written, are not engaging with the statements of the code, they are interacting with interfaces the programmes provide. This is not the same when it comes to books and music.
- recursive 8mo agoThere are many orders of magnitude more songs based on four chord loops than there are hit songs. Some people say it's easy to make a hit song. But there are a lot more people that want to do it than those that succeed. So I say no. Your take is reductive, and there is necessarily more to it.