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@lemire "I am willing to put place a public bet (100$ to the charity chosen by the winner) that computer science and related fields will continue to be popular in the coming two years. No crash in sight. Before you bet against me check the historical data. The dot-com crash and following massive reduction in funding saw a reduction by half of the number of students in computer science. And it did take a decade to recover. It might happen again. But the dot-com crash was brutal. Entire business domains were wiped out. We massively over invested in the web and many of these investments proved to be"
@lemire on X 2025-07-19 21:28:25 UTC 27.8K followers, 7189 engagements

"@franklynd We were promised marvellous cures after the human genome was mapped. The human genome was mapped and nothing happened"
@lemire on X 2025-07-20 18:47:56 UTC 27.7K followers, XX engagements

"Casey gave a great talk on object oriented programming. He was kind to object oriented programming but he couldnt not say that Alan Kays vision failed. I found his hypothesis for what motivated Kay credible (i.e. biological cells as self-organizing objects). As a professor I get to teach object oriented programming and yes there is a shape class which you can derive from to create a rectangle in my lecture notes and manuals. It is all very terrible. Dont do this in the real world. But you have to teach it just like you have to teach about socialism: it is a catastrophe in practice but you"
@lemire on X 2025-07-19 15:53:57 UTC 27.8K followers, 46K engagements

"We have had ChatGPT for years how many cures did it come up with How many scientific innovations did it produce Of course we may eradicate all diseases in the next ten years. It may happen. But what evidence do we have We still live in a world where Microsoft Windows file paths are limited to XXX characters by default. Many of us want faster progress but the fact that the highest prizes in Medicine Physics and Chemistry go to computer scientists is not entirely reassuring. Is better software the cure for most of our problems Software is definitely eating the world but how do we get to folks"
@lemire on X 2025-07-20 03:24:47 UTC 27.8K followers, 11.8K engagements

"@wangzhr4 "It already beat PhDs in many areas." Show me a PhD thesis worth reading written by ChatGPT"
@lemire on X 2025-07-20 04:03:10 UTC 27.7K followers, XXX engagements

"If the programming work you need to do is just 'established knowledge' the LLM can multiply your productivity by a factor of ten or more. So if you are working for an IT department and all they have for you is boring routine work and you are teleworking. then you can pretty much either find a second job or just become really good at video games. It is hard to tell how highly skilled programmers are impacted by LLMs. But I suspect that we are quite far from a revolution. I always disliked and deactivated conventional autocomplete tools. I had long debates with fellow programmers telling that"
@lemire on X 2025-07-14 12:38:21 UTC 27.8K followers, 10.2K engagements

"@martin_f_foster If this was in Canada the label would be made bilingual (French/English) by law. I am not in Quebec I am in Italy"
@lemire on X 2025-07-21 16:33:30 UTC 27.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Healthcare and education are not free. Ever. We measure how capitalistic a country (i.e. free market) is by its economic freedom index (as per the Fraser Institute) here are the countries you mention ranked (2024 ranking): Canada: X Denmark: X Norway: XX Spain: XX Sweden: XX Germany: XX Denmark and Canada are in the top XX of the most capitalistic countries"
@lemire on X 2025-07-20 10:41:52 UTC 27.7K followers, XXX engagements