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As a professional coder, I both agree and deeply hate this position. And code indeed has its values. See all algorithms invented by Carmack like BSPs, z-fail,

• bob1029 2mo ago
  > See all algorithms invented by Carmack The problem is very few (none?) of them actually were. He was just a wizard at applying them. This furthers the utilitarian argument.
• bitwize 2mo ago
  Carmack didn't invent BSP trees. He read about them in a paper and produced an efficient implementation that could render a 2D map in 3D using integer math on 386-class CPUs. He has always envied the mathematicians who actually come up with this stuff. I think he did come up with "Carmack's Reverse" (a dynamic lighting algorithm) independently. But not even the "fast inverse square root" was his; that, oddly enough, came from what is currently probably the premiere AI company: NVIDIA. But his implementations of these algorithms were indeed beautiful. I suppose AI could do something similar today, because the likes of Carmack had come before. But using AI for code is hobbling the creation of new Carmacks; and humans have the remarkable property that they can learn from other humans and still push the boundaries forward. When AIs learn from other AIs, model collapse occurs.
  • esafak 2mo ago
    > When AIs learn from other AIs, model collapse occurs. I don't think is so. Models continuing to improve by learning from other models is a counterexample.