We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.

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I often think about Elvis getting the Polio vaccine. It's not super hard to pull the thread and understand how the public trust collapsed. No clue on how to improve it though.

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And now these folks want to claim that the vaccine that came as a miracle, saving countless children and immeasurable pain, is a "massive fraud"? The ignorant arrogance of a (subset of) society that has erased its history and replaced it with conspiracy theory.

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But the photograph is faded and damaged, and the little girl, my mom, almost disappears into the sand. It makes me think of all the families whose children didn't survive polio, and their children who never made it here because their family trees were broken.

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While in Hawaii, when she was finally well, my mom's dad (my maternal grandfather) met up with his old friend (my paternal grandfather) for a day at the beach, and my 5-year old mom met my 7-year old dad. Here's a photo. My dad is on the far left, standing over my mom who is building a sandcastle.

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