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Re:GitHub Copilot by jude- on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:05PM (#27684110)
It's extremely hard to reason about the global emergent behavior of a complex system than the isolated behavior of a small component.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:08AM (#27684765)
I don't think it's a function of complexity per se, but determinism. This is why Haskellers love the IO monad. Used well, it lets you quarantine IO to a thin top-level layer, below which all functions are pure and easy to unit test.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by jude- on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:03AM (#27689407)
Distributed systems are anything but deterministic.
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