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New comment by patch_dev in "The AI Great Leap Forward"

patch_dev — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:12:17 +0000

So you have an AI refactor AI generated code? What am I missing here, if AI is the cause of the tech debt because it doesn't write great code, won't you just end up with more tech debt if you ask AI to refactor it?

New comment by patch_dev in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

patch_dev — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:27:50 +0000

Well, could you define what reasoning actually means? What would an AI need to do to be considered capable of reasoning? What is the core difference between what we do that is considered reasoning verse what AI currently does that is not considered reasoning?

To be clear, I am not making a statement as to whether AI reasons or not. Its just slippery to say something isn't or can't do X when we can't really define X. Perhaps if we can put it down as an outcome rather than an, in my opinion, currently impossible to accurately define characteristic of a thing.

New comment by patch_dev in "Porting software has been trivial for a while now"

patch_dev — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:02:36 +0000

This is an interesting idea, but do you have an example of you having done this or is it pure speculation as to what would work? My worry would be that a complex codebase ported over would have a heap of subtle bugs littered throughout it and no one who really understands it.

It's hard to tell what your blog posts are actually about because the titles are so cryptic. May I ask if you find any benefit from naming posts in way that makes it difficult to know what you are about to write about? I'm guessing it's purely creative which is totally fine.