Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by intrasight on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:32AM
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All data is potentially code only in a Von Neumann architecture, but not in a Harvard architecture, where there's a separation of data and code with different memory access to each.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by esterna on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:43AM
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by lelanthran on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:56PM
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> All data is potentially code only in a Von Neumann architecture, but not in a Harvard architecture, where there's a separation of data and code with different memory access to each.
Says you. I wrote a program for a Hardvard architecture chip (PIC) that read bytecode from the data memory and executed it. Updates were made by replacing the data block with a new data block.
In practice, there is no way to separate data and instructions. After all, JS downloaded inside a webpage is literally data, and it gets executed.