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- on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4d ago
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on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
it’s precisely because software engineering is hard (not difficult, but rigid - objective) that makes it a good fit for LLM agent execution
Yes i think we’re actually in agreement here. I said “hard” (not difficult) as a reference to “hard problems”, a term that comes from complexity theory but is now commonly used to describe problems which can’t be reduced to an algorithm or evaluated objectively, and thus can’t readily be “solved”.
Squishy subjects like music and sociology are full of hard problems, while solid subjects like math and coding are full of easy problems. Now the change introduced by LLMs is that as long as a problem is “easy”, it can no longer be so laborious as to be impossible. Every software problem is solvable, modulo the effort/computing power you can spend on it.
Your job as a software architect / engineer is actually to find the easiest workable solution(s).
You also get bonus point if your solution is average (standard, unsurprising etc…), which makes it particularly soluble in LLMs which, by definition, can only produce output that is within the distribution of their training set.
As for relative difficulty, the “soft” fields have a very sliding scale for that with a lot of allowance given to newbies that isn’t accepted “at the highest levels”
That’s not where i would put the difference. If you take a field like music, the problem is that it can’t “just work”. A nostalgic song may move the masses today but you can’t say “okay we’ve solved nostalgia let’s get to serenity next”. Soon enough you’ll need a new nostalgic song and by definition it will be out of distribution. You can’t find it in a high dimensional representation of past music, and, well, you can’t train on future data, so there is no way an LLM finds it and recognizes it for what it is.
with a high bar of standards required before publication and release, LLMs are a powerful tool that can accelerate many creative processes
I still believe they’ll never amount to much regarding artistic processes, and not just for the reasons i already mentioned. To make something good you need to sit with it and walk with it and spend some time in it doing all the tedious little tasks until it really feels like home and you can express yourself in it. You can’t achieve that if a machine speedruns all the little tasks for you.
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on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
You’re entirely right. This won’t replicate to other fields like writing and creative arts in general, but software engineering is just not that hard and can basically be brute forced with a good harness.
It’s a done deal and there is no world where people will write professional code by hand. I like it cause it really separates coding (the job) from coding (the art form). People will code by hand for aesthetic reasons just like people learn the violin instead of using a synth and we’ll have a generation of lovingly crafted stuff. But boring software will be entirely automated, if not generated on the fly based on immediate needs.
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on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
That’s cool but you’re describing the models from 2 years ago and also not considering harnesses, which account for most of the progress of the last year or so.
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on I can definitely maybe do this! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026
It was fashionable at a time to avoid ifs and other imperative structures, but I tend to like them. Functional is nice and all but I like my code to be smart in the way it works, not in the way it’s written. Nested ifs are readable, collapsible, and easy to make sense of at a glance, there’s often nothing wrong with using them.
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on Picked the wrong day to start a Red Dead Redemption 2 replay rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 Aug 2026
I’m playing star trucker right now so I’d be golden. Just one year of hauling cargo, customizing my rig and doing the occasional EVA to salvage expensive jetsam. Where do I sign?
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on What anime is basically this for you? in c/animemes@ani.social · 20 Aug 2026
Another counterpoint on my end : good/popular shows tend to converge creatively. Mid content can have great ideas that you wouldn’t find elsewhere.
It’s great nourishment for the creative mind. For example I keep a bunch of old sci fi short story magazines cause they are full of ideas and characters that are thought provoking but not mature or polished enough for the mass market. Keeps my brain on its toes.
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on Why nano gets used in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 9 Aug 2026
Blasphemy! Ctrl+k is multi line!
I would imagine that this is a good way to get rid of the initial employees who really believed they were doing good. Now if you stay after this, or if you get hired after this, they can be confident that you have no moral issue with what they are doing.