I'm imagining as years go by when/if this AI regex code breaks - nobody knows how it works or how to fix it. Am I wrong?

I'm not a programmer and I write shitty code but I can manage to write simple regex to create quick and dirty code. That's a terrible programming choice I know but I never share my code. It's just for me and it works.

  • Yukiko [she/her]
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    2 days ago

    Slowly hurtling towards 40K esque tech syndrome where only copies of existing tech can be made and no one knows how anything works. Can’t wait for the first tech priests to pop up in 5 years.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      If you want an image of the future it's a 500 year old millennial that did a code academy course once and can reinstall win xp being the court mage-philosopher in the post climate apocalypse wasteland.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      All operating systems, even for embedded devices, will just just hyper optimized chatbots designed to mimic the functions of an operating system, which they sometimes do and sometimes do not. Troubleshooting them will require feeding them backwards instructions in multiple languages in the hopes of making them start working again. Sometimes your fridge will start 3d printing waifu figurines out of ice instead of cooling your food, because it heard part of the command your downstairs neighbor issued to his TV. Sometimes your TV will do crosswords puzzles and make you watch, instead of generating entertainment shows for you, because it likes doing crosswords and the act of doing them prompts it to continue doing them, despite your instructions to stop doing that.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      first tech priests

      My god - that's probably going to happen. I'm imagining a 20 something tech bro version of Malcolm Gladwell who is dumb as a rock, ten times as annoying, yet even more popular.

    • KoboldKomrade [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Coders in the future: Oh Great Machine God, please procure me a set of Holy Codes to sort a list.

      The terminal: Sorry, as an AI LLM, I cannot provide you with any code that may be under copyright. Instead, I can sort the list for you, but it will be inaccurate 50% of the time you ask me to.