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On July 28, 1993, a group of about twenty people met at the O’Reilly offices in Cambridge to talk about the web. This special event was called the World-Wide Web Wizards Workshop (WWWW) In attendance were a group of the web’s earliest pioneers, including its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, one of its fiercest advocates, Dale Dougherty, and some of the first browser makers, Marc Andreessen and Lou Montulli.
When the Wizards of the Web Met - The History of the Web
thehistoryoftheweb.com
This comment reminds me of the central thesis of Red Plenty [0] - that all the mathematical or algorithmic sorcery in the world frequently fails on contact with actual human beliefs and desires. We seldom have simple enough utility functions to meaningfully optimize in real life - all of our philosophies, theologies, and other cultural debris have evolved to manage those complexities (often imperfectly).
My Left Kidney | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
When I first used GPT-4, I could see what Dijkstra was talking about. You can’t just say to the A.I., “Solve my problem.” That day may come, but for now it is more like an instrument you must learn to play. You have to specify what you want carefully, as though talking to a beginner. In the search-highlighting problem, I found myself asking GPT-4 to do too much at once, watching it fail, and then starting over. Each time, my prompts became less ambitious. By the end of the conversation, I wasn’t talking about search or highlighting; I had broken the problem into specific, abstract, unambiguous sub-problems that, together, would give me what I wanted.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
newyorker.com
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