> Before AI there was at least some way to tell apart good programmers from bad
There were only bad ways, and the best way was to just find people who were both good programmers and cared about quality to keep an eye on the rest. Nothing much has changed in that respect.
We also actively cull them, for the rats. Recently watched an episode of survivorman where he was on this tropical island infested with rats. There's absolutely nothing on that island yet there's rats all over the place. Having no humans they may explode in population.
That's only true for the rats. For the pigs and chickens (and rice), there will be fewer of them because they do not themselves have the capacity to exist at current population levels. The reason they're doing so well right now is purely that we want them to.
> I think trying to complicate or make this lesson “all accompanying” to make it more accurate to the real world would make it lose something in the process.
Yeah, it would lose any credibility it had as you realize that there’s nothing new there.
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