Even if AI will turn out to be great method for programming, it will replace humans in programming. There will be no place left for human programmers.

Otherwise, and when AI turn out to be a massive hype, it will lead to huge bubble burst which will take lots of tech companies with it. There will be no demand for software for a while, as we did not need much in the first place.

Either way, programming as a career is fucked.

EDIT: Wow, it's both funny and tragic to see the butthurt reaction. Poor folks who chose programming as a career..

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I really don't get the prevalence of the attitude "If we don't see it with light, it does not exist". Is it that improbable that there is some matter which does not interact with light? imo, similar argument could be made to deny existence of atoms - we cannot see it directly.

3mo ago

Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting - Analysis of Rust Coreutils (uutils) Bugs

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

Haskell types are not strong enough for that, maybe Lean or Coq would get there.

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Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting - Analysis of Rust Coreutils (uutils) Bugs

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

Don’t Trust a Path Across Two Syscalls

Wasn't this a common knowledge among application developers? File system is volatile, and can change any time, do not assume persistence of it. I heard about the principle from ghcup developer a few years ago.

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

Indeed.

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I am not a topologist, but I can try..

A space (shape) is contractible if you can "contract" (shrink) it to a point without cutting, pinching or punching through holes. For example, a mattress is contractible, since you can shrink it to the center - each point can follow the line to the center, continuously. Meanwhile, a doughnut, a circle or a hollow sphere are not contractible, you can never remove the inner "hole" to shrink to a point without cutting.

In general, any dimensional sphere is not contractible... Until it is - infinite dimensional sphere is contractible. Somehow, it loses the "hollow space" inside.

4mo ago

I love when scientists mock each other

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

Is this opinion piece implying that quantum computing researchers should stop researching because current quantum computers are currently less than proof of concept? Is technology supposed to be fully mature from the beginning?

4mo ago

Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

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someacnt @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

I don't think this is matter of mathematics, it is difficult to define what "software only running on desired machine" is. Like, do you permit functionally equal software with different code? With painstaking effort, functionality should be approximated fairly close (although idk what that means in mathematical context) On the other hand, requiring exact code is likely not what they want.