I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.

  • Deebster@programming.dev
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    17 days ago

    That’s a good point, but a few decades of talking to clients has led to a number of conversations like this where they want it to “just work”, even if they’ve input the wrong information.

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      17 days ago

      This is how I expect AI to work. I will silently think of a thing, and the AI must make it perfectly in one go. If it doesn’t, I have just lacked in describing in detail what it should do. And that takes thousands of lines of code.