> And I thought: mate, you were already so far up the abstraction chain you didn’t even realize you were teetering on top of a wobbly Jenga tower.
But AI is different. If I program in a high level language like Python, sure I don't know what's going on under the hood. But you get a 'feel' for it because the same code usually reproduces the same results. Does AI reproduce the exact same results when I ask the same thing? That I don't know.
I was thinking the wobbly Jenga tower thing was unfair. The stack TypeScript runs on is fairly stable and buildable on. LLM output is much more random.
As time goes on, I get closer and closer for Linux to be my daily driver. The ads, the Microsoft account login, the OneDrive in the explorer window, the 'recommendations' to change my default browser, etc make me more angry by the day. However, when I install Linux on an old machine, I initially have driver issues like wifi. And after fighting with that for an hour, I decide it's not worth the risk to blow away my main machine. So I accept the slop from MS and continue on.
But AI is different. If I program in a high level language like Python, sure I don't know what's going on under the hood. But you get a 'feel' for it because the same code usually reproduces the same results. Does AI reproduce the exact same results when I ask the same thing? That I don't know.