The Project of Software is Complete - Freddie deBoer
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what is progress, when there are no more unique arrangements of 0s and 1s?
You are aware, I imagine, of “vibe coding.” The large language models that have received so much fanfare in the past four years have thus far not delivered on the outsized promises that have been made on their behalf; limitless free energy, an end to hunger, and immortality have all conspicuously eluded us. One thing that LLMs really appear able to do well, though, is to write code. And this proficiency has gotten sufficiently advanced that many people now write software solely through directing an LLM, without necessarily having any actual programming skills themselves. The overwhelming…
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