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Although calculators can now do things almost no humans can do, or at least in any reasonable time. But most (now) wouldn’t call it AI. It’s a tool, with a very limited domain


That’s my point, it’s not AI now. It used to be.


Similarly, we esteem performance optimizations so aggressively that a lot of things that used to be called performance work are now called architecture, good design. We just keep moving the goal posts to make things more comfortable.




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