Awal clarifies the slippery-slope thesis; rau partially agrees
9 Sep 22 6:19 PM · 1d ago · 5 comments · 1 source · development 9 of 11
Awal acknowledged the pushback was justified but doubled down on the slippery-slope argument, framing it as a deliberate effort to raise alarm bells rather than a firm prediction. Separately, rau suggested the thesis wasn't "that far-fetched," noting that Windows, iOS, and Android sysadmins already don't manually edit config files.
“I'm posing a slippery slope argument so I understand the push-back. And if you don't wish to entertain that at all, that's understandable as well and you can ignore the rest of this comment.”
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There was a brief time when ordinary people started leaning html to make a web page. It was even taught in schools. That ended when myspace and facebook came along, which was about 20 years ago.
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You cant even upload files to the web on android. If you upload a file that happens to be an image, through the normal file picker on the web, using the file picker on your phone, android will mutate the file and remove metadata transparently. With no way to opt out, no way for the browser to ask for permissions.
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But people do kinda use them like one would use a repl, don't they? I can imagine a paradigm shift where an LLM becomes a natural way to interact with a system, like the repl in smalltalk.
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Probably both. FWIW, timelines are different in different regions. As an example, we tend to e.g. think of the Iron Age as having a fixed starting point, but the Bronze Age ended and the Iron Age began at different times in different places.
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I'm okay if files go away. A file only makes sense if you have a filesystem. But more and more the filesystem is becoming an implementation detail. In the future, we might only interact with a database or an indexed object store.
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