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iFire 4 hours ago

Agree.

I don't write for sentimentality. I write so that my code designs can survive longer than my work on it.

No documentation is worse than deceit.

The emptiness and vastness of the void (entropy) is much deeper than humans or machines.

Google search says this philosphy is called https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/

iFire 3 hours ago | parent [-]

At the Ise Jingu, the shrine is not built to last; it is built to be reconstructed from scratch every twenty years.

If we want our systems to last, we would need the "process knowledge"—the actual mastery of the craft—to be in human hands rather than decaying in a dead system.

I don't think we can afford to process-knowledge-transfer many of our essential systems... without machine assistance.