> watch your mouth I watched my mouth and it said "idiotic sewage slopbot", you're right, I'll make sure to write it in full next time. > I’ve had opinions about computers since I built my own in the 90s as a kid Very nice, but you can't write or read code, so you can't assess its quality. You can't think in code, so you can't have computational ideas.

But you can't read it, you said it yourself. It's not a new way to write code, it's a new way to be illiterate while reusing other's code, sometimes a bit scrambled and patched here and there. Which is fine, I use software libraries all the time, which I didn't write, I just don't pretend I'm their author (except when I actually am). If you cannot *think* in code you literally cannot have many computational ideas that those who do write code can have. The "new way" you are referring to is by writing in natural language, is it not? Many ideas are much easier to describe in code than they are in natural language. You wouldn't know or understand this because you can't have such ideas. It's those who do have such ideas that move software forward, not those who build the next app none asked for on top of them. Even without new computational ideas, if you cannot read code, you cannot asses its quality. You can, of course, see that a program appears to behave as intended, but that's not the same as its codebase being a high-quality one. It especially isn't when it comes straight from a slopbot.

I never said generated software couldn't be helpful, so I don't know what you're even trying to reply to. It is a statistical interpolation of existing code, however, and the range of possibilities is limited by that distribution, as you'd know if you knew how neural networks work. A computational idea isn't an idea about a new app, for fuck's sake. The vast majority of apps never require any novel computational ideas, not in the last few decades. And low-quality code can obviously be helpful if it runs correctly. It slowly deteriorates the whole system as it gets bigger and its role becomes more central, but it will at least appear useful in the meanwhile.