One thing I mean by saying that philosophers could benefit from 'thinking like AI programmers' is that forcing yourself to think about the algorithm that would generate a certain reality can guard against superstition, because magic doesn't reduce to computer code.

I recently came across Leibniz saying much the same thing in a passage where he imagines a future language of symbolic logic that had not yet been invented:

The characters would be quite different from what has been imagined up to now... The characters of this script should serve invention and judgment as in algebra and arithmetic... It will be impossible to write, using these characters, chimeral notions.

For the record, I didn't get this little gem from reading Leibniz. I stumbled onto it in Gleick's new history of information, The Information.