> This is the biggest issue I see with AI driven development. The data structures are incredibly naive.

Bill Gates, for example, always advocated for thinking through the entire program design and data structures before writing any code, emphasizing that structure is crucial to success.

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neocron 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software

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andsoitis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software

While developing Altair BASIC, his choice of data structures and algorithms enabled him to fit the code into just 4 kilobytes.

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dotancohen 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, actually. Gates wrote great software.

Microsoft is another story.

	▲	jll29 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And Paul Allen wrote a whole Altair emulator so that they could use an (academic) Harvard computer for their little (commercial) project and test/run Bill Gates' BASIC interpreter on it.

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PaulDavisThe1st 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd like to see Gates or anyone else do that for a project that lasts (at least) a quarter century and sees a many-fold increase in CPU speed, RAM availability, disk capacity etc.