alt Hacker NewsBut does it matter?
If you write a program in Python or JavaScript, you have a terrible mental model for how that code is actually executed in machine code. It's irrelevant though, you figure it out only when it's a problem.
Even if you don't have a great mental model, now you have AI to identify the problems and generate an explanation of the structure for you.
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The effect of JavaScript or python code is well defined - they have an excellent model of what it will do.
The performance - how that is executed on the machine is what you were referring to. “As if” is the key to optimization
> It's irrelevant though, you figure it out only when it's a problem.
For the past decade people have been clawing their eyes out over how sluggish their computers have become due to everything becoming a bloated Electron app. It's extremely relevant. Meanwhile, here you are seemingly trying to suggest that not only should everything be a bloated, inefficient mess, it should also be buggy and inscrutable, even moreso than it already is. The entire experience of using a computer is about to descend into a heretofore unimaginable nightmare, but hey, at least Jensen Huang got his bag.
No, but you have a great mental model of the interface between your problem domain and the code, which is where you can affect change.
Outsourcing that to an AI SaaS might be ok I guess. Given past form there's going to be a rug-pull/bait-and-switch moment and dividends to start paying out.