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In software engineering, a substantial part of taste is judging which systems will remain maintainable.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“like especially for something like software engineering, like I think a lot of taste is like what are the systems that are going to be maintainable.”Play from 50:12Report a misattribution
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