{"id":851,"date":"2023-12-20T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/20\/computer-science-is-doomed-because-humans-are-bad-at-programming-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:02","slug":"computer-science-is-doomed-because-humans-are-bad-at-programming-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/20\/computer-science-is-doomed-because-humans-are-bad-at-programming-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science is DOOMED Because Humans are Bad at Programming (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JhCl-GeT4jw?si=-IiygEEOaVEcXomJ?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, this video of Dr. Matt Welsh&#8217;s presentation to the CS-50 class at Harvard really put the whole AI, large language model into perspective. <\/b><b>It came at a very good time for me, because for past week or two I have been struggling with <\/b><b>what was, essentially, a programming problem. (Dean KK4DAS got it fixed, but the fact that it wasn&#8217;t easy made me think about the software problems discussed in the video.) <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>So much great stuff in this video: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Shel Silverstein! Yes! <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/soldersmoke-podcast-202-cover-rig-skn.html\">We have discussed him before<\/a>. The guy who wrote both kids books and articles for Playboy magazine. The author of &#8220;The Cover of the Rolling Stone&#8221; for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (&#8220;The thrill that&#8217;ll hit ya&#8230;&#8221;) <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; Pong. Toy Story (Mark K6HX worked on this). War Games. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; The connections between EE and CS. Slide rules. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&#8212; &#8220;ChatGPT is like an eBike for the mind.&#8221; (But it seems like the jump from Rust to AI is a lot more significant and involved than the jump from bike to eBike.) <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Matt&#8217;s presentation made me feel a LOT better about never having learned a programming language. And it made me feel a lot better about never having forced my kids to &#8220;learn how to code.&#8221; I always thought that there would be PEOPLE who were better at this. As it turns out, the AI is better at that. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Matt&#8217;s admission that we don&#8217;t really know what is going on in the large language models was really interesting. Especially his description of the &#8220;empirical discovery&#8221; of the need to use the phrase &#8220;let&#8217;s think step-by-step.&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>His description of the cost economics behind today&#8217;s programming vs. the cost of future (AI-based) software development should be quite sobering for many. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I found the video on this article:<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/if-computer-science-is-doomed-what-comes-next\/\"> https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/if-computer-science-is-doomed-what-comes-next\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, this video of Dr. Matt Welsh&#8217;s presentation to the CS-50 class at Harvard really put the whole AI, large language model into perspective. It came at a very good time for me, because for past week or two I have been struggling with what was, essentially, a programming problem. (Dean KK4DAS got it fixed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/12\/20\/computer-science-is-doomed-because-humans-are-bad-at-programming-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computer Science is DOOMED Because Humans are Bad at Programming (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-history","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11250,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/11250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}