> I read David Nicholas Williams's short blog post titled It's not empowering to hand off the details, in which he argues that AI cannot replace expertise because doing good work requires deep familiarity with the details.

> I couldn't agree more!

> He articulates very well the puzzling phenomenon I see every day with "AI-pilled" colleagues (including many engineers) who trust the model with far more than they should. They delegate the thinking and designing along with the execution, lose touch with the codebase, miss out on critical learnings, and then complain when the slop they produced doesn't solve the original problem.

> But I think the argument is incomplete without a counterexample. There is one phase where handing off work to AI is genuinely empowering, and that is worth defining and formalizing.

what confused me back then and still does is the strict determinism, the fact that program code order defines the output, not the fastest to prove valid binding.

I hoped for sth that would instead be driven by sth like A* guided by probabilities, learned from corpora...

in the early 2000s I then saw research doing exactly that, a* guided search guiding the unification algorithm. I wonder what has become of these approaches. (didn't find the specific paper any more, which to me was one of these sacred moments of reading something hard and useful being well explained, if I find it I'll update. I _believe_ it was from Stanford)

I speculate OP wanted to put focus on their chosen detail in the title...

thank you.

> texlode, the browser-based book editor built on this architecture, is scheduled for public release in October 2026. It provides collaborative editing via conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs), manu- script import from Word, proceedings management, cover design tools, and print-ready PDF output iden- tical to standard LuaLATEX. The accompanying con- ference talk demonstrates the editor in action. For details: texlode.com.

and also:

> (section) 6 Comparison to Typst

??

somewhat related Q:

how do you give two files the same ancestor? so git log will for each show the history to the beginnings of the originally unsplit file? useful for splitting large files.

and the state as all citizens, including those affected by gang and drug related violence also would benefit from dong things differently.

it's those who benefit off the current prison labor system who lobby to keep it running, and they make it seem "natural" and "without alternatives"...

and "the state" (as the tax collecting entity) pays for the prisons and the inmates while the labor "providing" companies benefit off the labor.

it's a very very clever system.

enslavement without being called such.

and I agree, no, "the state" (as the totality of citizens) doesn't benefit.

only "the state" as the entity that's controlled by lobbyists and _pretends_ being by the people, for the people, that has no motivation to change this.

they also give good indication on how to handle topics that don't tickle your personal preferences (for "interesting" or "curious"): silently ignore them

especially if interest is the guidance on downvoting and flagging. the sorting is not according to your personal preferences, as in "social media", but according to the hn hive think. thus negative voting indicates "anti-curious", "anti-conversation", not dislike.

there is zero financial motivation for the state for prevention or rehab or any other activities to reduce imprisonment rates

did I mention disenfranchisement of the imprisoned?

(had to look it up)

ftfy

I'm talking TuSpo 1846 or Post SV or Dt. Alpenverein or Gesangsverein whathaveyou or Tanzsportverein Blau Weiss or Freunde der Modelleisenbahn sth or LSVD or Kleingartenverein etc etc etc

traditional clubs with a constitution and real self organized base democratic involvement and leadership

you get the idea.

not the "let's save some tax" scam pseudo clubs where you are not a voting member but just a service customer.

C1 is high school

C2 is academics.

see sibling comment for links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828753

C1 is high school level indeed and C2 is academics. this has been studied on native speakers:

me> I'm looking for studies which examine citizens language proficiency in their native tongue in the European language reference framework i.e. b2 C1 C2

Gemini> https://share.google/aimode/bImgIsAl5VfAcuoFl

has links to studies

also here is the "self assessment" on the CEFR home page:

Self-assessment grid - Table 2 (CEFR 3.3) : Common Reference levels - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) https://share.google/E6POb6UYC53cUkxXg

indeed.

C1 is high school.

C2 is academics.

see sibling comment for links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828753