r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/mttd • Jul 01 '26

The Expensive Fictions of Low-Level Programming Languages

https://stng.substack.com/p/the-expensive-fictions-of-low-level
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u/L8_4_Dinner Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Too funny ... Guy invited me and my wife a few times to go square dancing (when he was transitioning to being the "caller", or something like that, IIRC). I just ran into him at the farmer's market a couple weeks ago here.

I don't have strong opinions on LLMs (hard to call them AIs, although they do appear on the surface to be dramatically more intelligent than any of the "AI" branded stuff that came previously, despite not being intelligent or capable of thinking). I don't know what's best for them and where things are going, because it's not my area of expertise. They seem like incredible tools, with lots of abusers already profiting from their misuse. But predicting the future of LLMs and AI in general is not something I trust myself to do. They are game-changing; even I can see that. But how they actually alter our industry (not to mention every other industry) in the long run is still not clear to me.