in fact Linus says AI may increment productivity x10, but compilers did
it x1000, so we are not quite close :)
Esteban
On 6/7/26 18:47, Nicolas Anquetil wrote:
may be AI will allow us to raise the level of abstraction, just as
compilers, or OO did ?
We (humans) will still program (through AI) but the programming
language will be different
nicolas
On 2026-06-07 18:39, Esteban Lorenzano via Pharo-dev wrote:
I like what Linus Torvalds say here :
https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-programming-productivity/
In the best of cases, is a productivity tool. Just like compilers
were at a point (compilers did not have all the ecological issues
associated, of course).
The first thing we need to do is stop anthropomorphizing tools. It
really freaks me out when people talk about LLMs — and agents — as if
they were human.
Esteban
On 5/8/26 17:26, Stephane Ducasse via Pharo-dev wrote:
I love it.
IA look like crap generator.
I see in some text I’m reading.
So for the code I can image.
S
On 8 May 2026, at 10:17, Nicolas Anquetil
<[email protected]> wrote:
About AI and truck factor
This post
https://www.shapeandship.ai/p/cheap-to-build-costly-to-keep argues
that with AI coding the truck factor tends toward 0...
/In a post-mortem, this surfaces as "nobody knew this code
existed," which is worse than "only one person knew."/
They talk about "comprehension debt" (evolution of the technical
debt concept)
cheers
nicolas
On 2026-05-07 22:01, Koen De Hondt wrote:
Dear Pharo users and developers,
I posted a first article in a series about using AI in Pharo
development. After seeing the world embrace agentic development
tools, I decided it was time to look into them and see how they
can be used for software development in Pharo.
https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/24
As always, all feedback is welcome.
Happy reading!
Ciao,
Koen
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