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The engine was designed autonomously without human intervention

Hmmm. My software compiles itself 'without human intervention' when I click the compile button (ignoring the thousands of hours of work I put into writing the code and the even larger amount of work that went into creating the compiler).

Yes, I can see many similarities.

- Your code specifies design constraints--you need it to do X and Y and Z.

   - The engine designers needed the engine to fit in X and operate at Y temperature and not blow up (Z).
- The compiler takes your instructions and optimizes them for the processor instruction set.
   - This program optimizes the engine design for the physics instruction set.
It seems like both represent huge productivity leaps from laboriously making things in the original low-level languages.

The AI goalpost movers are at it again.

Computer: generates natural language output in response to arbitrary prompts

Programmer: it’s just a computer program, it doesn’t require intelligence to do that. It’s not doing rocket science.

Computer: does literal rocket science

Programmer: sure, but it’s still just running a computer program

Computer: advises users to eat rocks

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