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Brian_K_Whiteyesterday at 10:12 PM1 replyview on HN

It's kind of like producing code is becoming more like farming.

We didn't create the dna we rely on to produce food and lumber, we just set up the conditions and hope the process produces something we want instead of deleting all the bannannas.

Farming is a fine an honorable and valuable function for society, but I have no interest in being a farmer. I build things, I don't plant seeds and pray to the gods and hope they grow into something I want.


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nradovyesterday at 10:15 PM

Prayers are for weather. Pretty much all farmed plant, animal, and fungus species have been selectively bred or genetically modified. Farmers know what's going to grow.

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