I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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I always assumed they were asking if it was rigged.
Like, i can write function sum(a, b) that always returns 10, and impress people how it's correct when I pass in 1,9 and 2,8 and 3,7. But if I pass in 7,7 it'll still return the "right" answer of 10, because it's rigged and not actually doing math.
That's a good point, but a few decades of talking to clients has led to a number of conversations like this where they want it to "just work", even if they've input the wrong information.
This is how I expect AI to work. I will silently think of a thing, and the AI must make it perfectly in one go. If it doesn't, I have just lacked in describing in detail what it should do. And that takes thousands of lines of code.
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