Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by TeMPOraL on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:01AM
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But that's just irrelevant confusion of terms.
There is no fundamental distinction between code and data. This separation does not exist as category in actual reality (and I vividly remember that being one of the bigger points GEB made, early on). They're fundamentally one and the same, and classifying some bits as data and some as code is a point of view that really depends on what you're doing and why.
As for Harvard architecture - every time you branch on your "data", you're effectively executing it, and your "code" can be seen as emulating a system where your "data" is the actual code.
There is no fundamental distinction between code and data. This separation does not exist as category in actual reality (and I vividly remember that being one of the bigger points GEB made, early on). They're fundamentally one and the same, and classifying some bits as data and some as code is a point of view that really depends on what you're doing and why.
As for Harvard architecture - every time you branch on your "data", you're effectively executing it, and your "code" can be seen as emulating a system where your "data" is the actual code.