Topic: code written

7 chunks · 6 episodes

Topic summary

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code written appears in 7 chunks across 6 episodes, from 2024-02-12 to 2026-01-19.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/19/24 (2024-08-19), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with llms, vast majority, and black box, while by chunk count it sits between code execution and emergent force; its yearly rank moved from #110 in 2024 to #167 in 2026.

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Range2024-02-12 to 2026-01-19Mean1.2 per episodePeak2 on 2024-08-19

Observations

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Showing 7 observations sorted from latest to earliest.

The vast, vast majority of code that exists in the world is junk code.

from Bits and Bobs 1/19/26 · 2026-01-19

...n a textbook. Truly novel Algorithmically Interesting code is maybe .01% of all code written. Maybe 20% of code is CRUD. Simple wrappers around SQL. The other 80% of code is just boring integrations. Just shuttling code back and forth between...

No one has ever been able to do an auto-assembling process with code.

from Bits and Bobs 4/21/25 · 2025-04-21

...le to do an auto-assembling process with code. Writing code was too hard to do. Code written by other anonymous creators is untrusted. You can't run untrusted code on sensitive data. LLMs can write code. Now you just need a way to make runnin...

Things written by LLMs are slop.

from Bits and Bobs 9/9/24 · 2024-09-09

Things written by LLMs are slop. Integration code written to combine disparate things is glue code. Glue code written by LLMs is glop. Glop is a kind of black box; it doesn't need to be understood necessaril...

Code written for humans to work with has to fit into a human brain's limited context window.

from Bits and Bobs 8/19/24 · 2024-08-19

Code written for humans to work with has to fit into a human brain's limited context window. Which requires layers of abstraction; leverage for thinking. A massiv...

The same origin model is too coarse.

from Bits and Bobs 8/19/24 · 2024-08-19

...ion over time. But if the value of software is the combinatorial possibility of code written by different people being composed into new wholes, then across-origin should be common. A system that leaned into making across-origin compositions ...

Code written in the LLM era will be smaller single files, not separations of concerns.

from Bits and Bobs 7/1/24 · 2024-07-01

Code written in the LLM era will be smaller single files, not separations of concerns. LLMs do better with smaller files with all local context. Code that LLMs wr...

What is the difference between a protocol and a platform?

from Bits and Bobs 2/12/24 · 2024-02-12

...e difference between a protocol and a platform? Using a platform requires using code written by someone else. It might be a tool (open source, perhaps running on your computer) It might be a service (requiring reaching out to the code running...