Pedro de las Heras Quirós
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Distributed systems, computer networks, formal methods, ethical CS, free/libre software, world history. Necessarily in disorder. Fediverse/Mastodon: @pheras@fosstodon.org
![How could computer science—a discipline that began with vacuum tubes
and transistors, with programming by switches and punched cards; that
slowly rose from binary language to today’s zoo of programming
languages and paradigms; that along the way invented compilation,
interpretation, just-in-time compilation, the Von Neumann
architecture, memory hierarchies, branch prediction and countless
other hardware tricks, dynamic, distributed, parallel, and real-time
programming, as well as a thousand other concepts of astonishing
sophistication and elegance, how could computer science, I ask, have
mutated into this cult of generative or agentic AI worshippers, where,
in closed circles, people pass around the recipes for steering the
beast toward the desired outcome?
[...]
But how can an ordinary computer scientist succumb to the siren call
of agentic AI? Is its song so irresistible that it drives them to
abandon, in an instant, all their hard-won skills in software design
and engineering, transforming themselves into a mere novice in the
faith of agentic AI, whose sole aspiration is to become a high priest
through the ceaseless study of the grimoires in which the sect’s
incantations are meticulously recorded?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2twdzx7kiudzcad7qs4pydf/bafkreidpapmi4s5ylxgtebdwdehrc3ct4t3qvq7toktuh6ztvuo7lrj52u)
