limit499karma

Actually the opacity of the abstraction layer is the core of the issue. First we note that opacity is a measure in both the inner-workings of the 'box' and orthogonally (in context of LLMs) a measure of deterministic outcome.

Programming, it is asserted by some of us, is exactly the act of instructing a deterministic 'black' box.

Peer-coding with an LLM is the act of cajoling a mechanism to hopefully consistently produce the input to a sensible "blackbox". It is not programming, it is getting help. Now if the help was 100% reliable, we could discuss programming the helper.

The other day I had a vision of the future AI whisperer in the corporate setting. They wear capes of varied colors and possibly sport a wand. "It's an art you see".

after watching Carlson's interview with Durov have come to think he may be the genuine article. Very interesting bit his relating us agents trying to recruit a dev and pushing some specified but alas unnamed oss libraries to use in Telegram.

https://www.ft.com/content/c5d40e3c-9f9c-43dc-a467-1c713b40c...

That makes me wonder if Telegram was always a Russian spook op and its [ineffective] banning just a ruse.

I don't think any of the major platforms are independent of some spook oversight.

While our intuition is indeed informed by experience it should be understood that speculative meditations (should one care not to believe in inspiration "from above") can enrich mental content and provide structural elements for conceptualization that transcends ordinary perception.

So the intellect is indeed superior to mentation. And for many of us this distinction is informative of our belief in the incompleteness of our self-perception.[..]

> "Spend some time with the other team"

How about design documents? Is that truly a lost art among the latter-day geeks?

   { select[i]@dropdown:states > click@button:submit }

So a 'record' feature on GUI 'a' can create action encoding that can be emailed to your peer looking at GUI 'b' and 'pasted'.

This is not correct.

المقابلة indicates two entities facing one another. Root is Q.B.L. from which we also get Qibla (that is direction of prayer). So it indicates the balancing of terms on each side of the equation.

الجبر is actually one of the names of God and it means forceful/irresistible compeller. In context of حساب (computation, reckoning) حساب الجبر then means a computation that is compelled (by mathematical logic).

I get what you are trying to convey but that usage of the term is not helpful in the general case as it confuses what mechanical sympathy actually means.

Mechanical sympathy is simply this: abstractions that acknowledge the underlying embodying stratum of a dynamic construct. In code, that translates to software that attempts at harmonizing the software abstraction with the operational characteristics of the underlying computing device.

This is a cautionary tale. The same thing has happened to our nation, America, with the attendant decline across the board over the past 20-30 years.

Over at France24.com this is what is posted ATM:

"Two security sources said the modus operandi meant initial suspicions fell on leftist militants or environmental activists, but they said there was not yet any evidence."