alt Hacker NewsOne is abstraction, one is complexity that _you_ own. Even 100 lines of trad-coded C relies on "hundreds of MB to GB of code from god knows where" in the Linux kernel. The difference is, you can perfectly understand that C, and own it. Then delegate ownership of the rest to Linus. If AI writes 1000 lines of C instead, now there's code no human owns in the world.
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solenoid0937 • yesterday at 7:01 AM
The point is that saying "I own the code" is just drawing an arbitrary line in the sand.
You can give the AI the spec, and own the spec instead of the code.
Eventually, the spec too will be something the model owns, and you'll work at a higher level of abstraction.
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> The difference is, you can perfectly understand that C, and own it.
and there is a community of developers who care about the quality of those libraries and take the weight of their responsibility seriously