Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by hashmap on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:50AM
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the equilibrium state would be having found a good pattern for making patterns good. we probably aren't too far from that, so i think your worry may show up in the short term but not the long one
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by worldsayshi on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:17AM
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You're thinking of provable code? Or something else?
Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by asa123 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:03PM
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it appears they are thinking of a universal 'framework' for all things we may consider insecure as of present
Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by hashmap on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:33AM
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that would do it too, and i suppose people are working on that. but even without that, there arent infinite low hanging fruit problems to find, and any given code can just sort of be play-doh'd into other code. so the llms will need a few idk years worth of rounds of being trained on the things that pop up that wed never have the time to harden, and things will settle. like, its hard patching stuff up quick right now but society hasnt fallen in to chaos.