Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by skydhash on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:26AM
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The programmer skill is how to abstract the specs from all the examples. And then to formalize it. Actual coding is merely translation. And only beginners tend to focus on that.
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Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by petra on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:49AM
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Sounds very similar to what AI is good at.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by skydhash on Sunday May 31, 2026 @10:28AM
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May work for simple cases, but how would you come up with something like typst, or thunderbird?
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by wtetzner on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:35PM
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I've yet to see AI be good at extracting good abstractions. More often than not it jumps to creating a battery of special case checks.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat
by dapperdrake on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:40PM
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No. AI sucks at formal languages and implications.
Lossy decompression probably won’t ever be really good at this. If it’s missing from the data, then it won’t be there.
The AI math proofs were probably already out there in tiny pieces and nobody got all of the pieces together. That is valuable. It’s different from making a piece that is missing. And the AI will just hallucinate.