Matthew McCane

Software Engineering @ASU
The Hard Way

[Matthew McCane @itsMattMcCane]

RIP Sekekama I will always remember you! 💪🏾🔥💯🦁😭

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.

But at the same time, let us remember that there is value in the activity of engaging one’s mind and body to discover, to understand, to create, and yes, even to struggle and overcome. Indeed, these are some of the things that make us human, that contribute to giving us meaning, that are part of the simple joy of experiencing being alive.

[Matthew McCane @itsMattMcCane]

@nikitabier @_trevorholliday NFL hub sucks on here. Names and teams are always wrong. Even sports.

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@shivon No one cares

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@unclebobmartin https://t.co/GKnED0MGRm

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

In the face of generative AI coding agents, the role of human-led architecture becomes even more important in the crafting of software-intensive systems.

All architecture is design, but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the set of significant design decisions that shape the form and function of a system, where significant as measured by cost of change.

As such, remember that coding agents are reasonably good at transforming prompts into code, but they are not particularly good at making decisions that balance the static and dynamic forces on a system in order to yield a reasonably optimal solution: this is where human judgment, human understanding, human knowledge, and human experience shine.

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https://t.co/GKnED0MGRm

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@elonmusk Doesnt count. No bill Gates

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@rocallahan Cool no one cares

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😂😂😂😂

[Dimitri Dadiomov @dadiomov]

What struck me about this photo is that Trump and Xi invited to their dinner table: an immigrant from South Africa, two Taiwanese immigrants that came to the US as children, and a gay kid from Alabama, all of whom moved to Silicon Valley to make a dent in the universe.

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@jeremymstamper @Noahpinion No one continent “invented” AI.

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@Noahpinion So its a collective effort of diverse talents from across the world. Thats how it works

[Erina | AI Tools & News @AITechEchoes]

Yann LeCun: we are not going to get human-level intelligence or AGI by just scaling LLMs.

“There’s absolutely no way in hell.”

“The idea that we’re gonna have a country of geniuses in a data center, that’s complete BS.”

“It may feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you.”

“But it’s not a PhD.”

“It’s a system with gigantic memory and retrieval ability, not one that can invent solutions to new problems.”

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@Grady_Booch @hamandcheese @aran_nayebi Machine — Brain lol not the same

[Veee @vikktorrrre]

Yann LeCun: we are not going to get human-level intelligence or AGI by just scaling LLMs.

“There’s absolutely no way in hell.”

“The idea that we’re gonna have a country of geniuses in a data center, that’s complete BS.”

“It may feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you.”

“But it’s not a PhD.”

“It’s a system with gigantic memory and retrieval ability, not one that can invent solutions to new problems.”

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

In my career, compilers have always generated better code that I ever could have. I find this to be increasingly so with contemporary AIs.

But you know what neither can do better than me?

Knowing what software to write, what shape it should take, and what I want it to do.

The entire history of software engineering has been one of rising levels of abstraction.

This is how it was, how it is now, and how it shall be in the fullness of time.

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@EbiThinks Apple CEO because they will have the best margins

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@CaitlinCloud9 💯👏🏽

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@pmddomingos Whats the purpose of this post?

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@LabSpeculation No one cares

[Matthew McCane @itsMattMcCane]

Excellent choice

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Contemporary AI IMHO is perhaps better named statistical intelligence.

Cybernetics, as promoted by Norbert Wiener, involved principles such as homeostasis and communication architecture, which are orthogonal to the nature of LLMs.