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I always appreciate these kinds of candid analyses. I’ve become convinced that all the various things people refer to as “AI” are indeed very useful, but they don’t obviate the need for actual engineering. At this point it’s been many years since LLMs became broadly available and the benefits remain largely hypothetical and in the future but the harms are very much real and present today.

I've been thinking about versioning (for work) lately and I'm reminded of Rich Hickey's take on it from his Spec-ulation talk. The gist of it is that it’s more useful to think in terms of breakages and accretions as opposed to the more vague notion of “versions”. He (perhaps controversially) suggests that breaking changes should just be considered new things, the concept of having a new “version” of something that is not compatible with the old one is incoherent if you think about it.