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stabblestoday at 10:13 AM3 repliesview on HN

The TL;DR: code should be easy to audit, not easy to write for humans.

The rest is AI-fluff:

> This isn't about optimizing for humans. It's about infrastructure

> But the bottleneck was never creation. It was always verification.

> For software, the load-bearing interface isn't actually code. Code is implementation.

> It's not just the Elixir language design that's remarkable, it's the entire ecosystem.

> The 'hard' languages were never hard. They were just waiting for a mind that didn't need movies.


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tyleotoday at 11:21 AM

To put it another way: this article isn’t about the AI fluff, it’s about the two sentences at the top the author wrote themselves. ;)

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zeristortoday at 11:22 AM

It really is AI fluff.

Are people starting to write and talk in this manner, I see so many YouTube videos where you can see a person reading an AI written text, its one thing if the AI wrote it, but another if the human wrote it in the style of an AI.

As someone pointed out to me the way an AI writes text can be changed, so it is less obvious, its just that people don't tend to realise that.

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dist-epochtoday at 10:25 AM

Man you are bad at TL;DR;-ing, you completely left out the main point article makes comparing stateful/mutating object oriented programming that humans like and pure functional oriented programing that presumably according to author LLMs thrive in.