Comment by jmogly
2 days ago
Right now you have this awesome new dynamic capability that doesn’t mesh with how we are used to building software; well defined, constrained, correct. Software products are close ended. Imagine if they weren’t. Imagine if you were playing an open world game like Skyrim or runescape and new areas were created as you explored, new weapons, entirely new game mechanics spontaneously arose as you played. Or imagine an intent based business analytics app, that had a view on your company’s database and when a user wanted a report or a visual it generated it on the fly. We’re only limited by our imagination here.
and by reality. the tech is nowhere near ready for this
imagine whatever you like, its your fantasy
in the real world we expect consistent behavior from engineered systems, and building everything on top of a gpu powered bullshit engine isn't going to give you that
its a nice narrative though, maybe you should pick up writing sci-fi
Yeah today we do … what if engineered systems were more like humans, where we trade consistency for more interesting capabilities. Not to say there won’t still be traditional engineering for stable behavior systems, but these tools do have the ability to add a human touch to our software that wasn’t possible before. I’ll stick to software.
That's all well and good to ask as a what if, but in terms of practical applications, the vast majority of the time you want to trade the other way around whenever possible - you want your system to work reliably. That's the cornerstone of any project that wants to be useful for others.