Comment by fragmede
4 hours ago
Technology evolves and traditions change. What persists is the role, not the filename and its extension. Weddings are still weddings even after things went from painted portraits to film cameras to camcorders to smartphones to livestreams. Same with birthdays. Cards became phone calls, Facebook wall posts, group chats, shared albums, or generated videos (Sora, RIP).
The tradition of having a deck of punch cards evolved to having assembly, to Pascal, Fortran, C, basic. The important part is a human-auditable directive, not an opaque, generated artifact as the thing that matters.
have evolved and adapted. Photography, film cameras, polaroids, camcorders, digital cameras, smartphones, social media, Zoom/virtual attendees. Same with birthdays. Handwritten cards, to phone calls to e-cards, Facebook wall posts, video calls, shared photo albums and Sora (RIP) videos.
> The important part is a human-auditable directive, not an opaque, generated artifact as the thing that matters.
Your arguments create a false dichotomy. You look at it from consumer perspective, while coding and it's artifacts are usually done by suppliers. If you change camcorder to tv advertisement, the requirements shift. The human auditable directive and the outcome matter. Coca Cola probably has very high standards for their IP (the directive) and doesn't care about the outcome (AI slop ads). The result is disgruntled consumers.
If you don't care about the "opaque" generated artifact, then you are Coca Cola.