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heavyset_goyesterday at 10:05 AM3 repliesview on HN

Books are just simple theses and themes with hundreds of pages of boilerplate


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endymion-lightyesterday at 10:39 AM

This is a great example actually.

To me, a function is a single sentence within a book. It may approach the larger picture, but that sentence can be reviewed, changed, switched around, killed by an editor.

Some programmers believe they're fantastic sentence writers. They brag about how good of a sentence they write, they're entire worldview has been built on being good sentence creators. Especially within enterprises, you may spend your entire life writing sentences without ever really understanding the whole book.

If your worldview has been built on sentence creation, and suddenly there's a sentence creator AI, you're going to be deathly afraid of it replacing you as a sentence writer.

artisinyesterday at 11:04 AM

Hit songs are just simple four-chord loops stretched over three minutes of synthetic boilerplate.

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simianwordsyesterday at 10:25 AM

lot of people are saying this