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points by soundworlds 4 days ago | 0 comments

> I’m not ready to declare that the age of source code is over and our future involves incomprehensible machines editing their own model weights in incomprehensible ways.

Fair, but is there a good argument that this won't scale over time? I think for most people who are "hyping" this - it's more about the paradigm shift we see coming, rather than the current state of the technology.

[–] dbtndm 4 days ago

thanks! could you elaborate more on the paradigm shift as you see it? is it like software programming becomes probabilistic (statistical) instead of being deterministic? I just started digging this shift thing, and such discussions on HN reminds me astrology forums where they discuss new Tarot deck. like the whole engineering thing becomes more esoteric.

[–] winthrowe 4 days ago

I've only just started paying attention to this space, but it seems to me like we are going from a world where we can only write high level code that gets fed to a black box compile tool chain, and now we're starting to have a debugger and hex editor that works against compiled code.