> You probably don't care about the ingredients or engineering of asphalt
Everyone does. You don’t think about it everyday because we’ve delegated it to experts which don’t come up with a new composition of Asphalt every time you press “generate”. It’s rigorously battle tested and short of intentional negligence, it’s consistent. I’m amazed how people are forgetting how the world actually works.
Exactly - the normalization of craft (?) is interesting
You've missed the point.
The point doesn’t seem to have been thought through.
The point is, if road engineers changed their process and materials, and to you it felt like driving on the same road, with the same wear and tear and potholes, you wouldn't even notice.
If AIs can generate code that looks ridiculous to humans but over time has the correct performance, the correct behaviour, no-one outside of software engineers will know or care.
> The point is, if road engineers changed their process and materials,
They do those in labs, and then studies are made to prove that it can replace the current composition. They do not invent those on the spot and let the drivers QA the road.
> If AIs can generate code that looks ridiculous to humans but over time has the correct performance, the correct behaviour
It’s on you to prove that this big “if” can be realized.