RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115943290593235431

When I was using Gnuplot in the early 2000s, I thought of it as an old, creaky program.

If you have 5 layers of indirection in your code that you always need to jump through in order to add any functionality and tests that are painful to write because of bad design, I can totally see how AI can speed you up.

The hidden value of speeding up non-constraint in the system is that it makes real constraint more prominent, making it more visible that speeding up non-constraint was never the right problem to solve.

Sometimes you just need to sit it out for the right problem and right solution to that problem to become more obvious to more people.