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So I was watching some news related to GIMP, mentioning how it's now incorporating auto-generated software.

How would this have been described 20 years ago?

"Designers to further rely on auto-generated images."

2025?

"Content creators add open source LLM from support communities to their workflow in order to aid the creative process."

Don't blame the technololgy, auto-generated software is a master stroke of computing genius. Blame the idiots who hard-trained the world to turn language into useless marshmallows designed to make you eat shit and then pay for it.
 
LLM-generated code can be good or bad. I don't have that great success with it on larger scale changes, but asking one for a random function doing a random thing in a random language you don't know ell can work. You should obviously know that random language well enough to review the code.

Now, if I could make LLM's spit out less compile-time type errors in C++ that would be more useful...
 
Point taken. I will in future refrain from redditizing this forum.

The point I was making, though, is that to the extent that there is an enemy, it isn't autogenerating software. That's a pretty neat piece of technology. And it will only get neater, although, as with every fad, there are a lot of people doing depressingly useless things with it, and there are very likely very well-funded groups doing potentially nefarious things with it. But that's just the world. Not to mention that every website now has to pay 10x, once for the users and 9x for the flood of robot crawlers. But ok.

If anything, marshmallow language is getting in the way of excellence for this new programming paradigm.

"Boosting the creative process." Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining? Is that how the saying goes?
 
"Auto generated code" or is it really "tool generated code"? Been around for longer than 20 years.
Search for "Client server programming with RPC and DCE" and "CORBA".
 
Well, it's not autogenerate code. Though it can be and is usd to generate code. It's autogenerated binaries. There is no code. The software is generated by initializing a bunch of bits, and then altering the bits themselves via algorythms. That's the magic of it.
 
By the way, it isn't the case that this didn't happen before because it's so difficult to figure out. As I understand it, the theory of it was laid out as early as the 80's. The reason it's only gotten rolling recently is available computing power. It takes hell of CPU to constantly refresh every single bit.
 
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