A truism in software is that code is harder to read than write
Another truism is that truisms are untrue things that people say anyway.
Examples of code that is easier to read than write include those where the code represents a deep insight that must be discovered in order to implement it. This does not apply to most examples of software that we use to automate minutia but could potentially apply to the core elements of a GAI's search procedure.
The above said I of course agree that the thought of being able to read the AI's mind is ridiculous.
Examples of code that is easier to read than write include those where the code represents a deep insight that must be discovered in order to implement it.
Unless you also explain that insight in a human-understandable way through comments, it doesn't follow that such code is easier to read than write, because the reader would then have to have the same insight to figure what the hell is going on in the code.
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