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0 pointsrefulgentis1mo ago0 comments

If you squint at coding agents you see the next OS.

Maybe better phrasing is “HCI paradigm”, but that somehow manages to say everything and nothing.

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Programming was always about designing rube goldberg systems that did a complicated state machine akin to dominos but now we have a probabalistic and nondeterministic domino that has a huge amount of dominos inside amd can dynamically generate many different paths of dominos sometimes not even leading to the intended final domino you wanted to fall.

I see it more like a compiler

RealStupidity1mo ago

I agree that it's more like a compiler (turns higher level language into machine code) but I also think that's only half the story - a compiler could never turn requirements into functional software, generate boilerplate or debug. It's also a development tool

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whattheheckheck1mo ago

I see it more like a compiler

RealStupidity1mo ago

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