The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by BobBagwill on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:14PM (#47200324)

The potentially cool thing about LLM's is bootstrapping. No matter how much COBOL you wrote, COBOL didn't get better. LLM's can be used to make LLM's (and other software stuff) better. LLM's could be used to create their successor(s).

Of course, in the end, it won't do us humans any good, because when the Singularity AKA Rapture comes, we'll all be converted to Computronium. :-)

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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by elzbardico on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:34PM (#47202268)

I am convinced that LLMs can't truly create really novel knowledge. They may even surface it in a way that looks novel, but not really create any new knowledge.

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