after Charles Bukowski‘s Style
AI is the answer to everything,
a fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing.
To do a dull thing with AI is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it.
To do a dangerous thing with AI is what I call art.
Refactoring can be an art,
debugging can be an art,
naming things can be an art,
merging without a conflict can be an art.
Not many have AI.
I’ve used tools with more AI than principal engineers,
though not many tools have AI.
Experiments have it with abundance.
When a model outputs instructions to build a nuclear reactor,
that is AI.
Or sometimes a life burns so hot
AI trains on the ash.
John Carmack,
Octavia Butler,
Socrates,
Miyazaki,
Ken Thompson,
Aaron Swartz.
I’ve seen more AI in dead-end branches
than in any main trunk.
A test run generating perfect nonsense,
or a server humming, alone, at 3 a.m.