Programming is Officially Dead

So apparently the bastards at MIT figured out how to make a program that can write programs.
http://web.mit.edu/remy/
Remy creates end-to-end congestion-control algorithms that plug into the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). These computer-generated algorithms can achieve higher performance and greater fairness than the most sophisticated human-designed schemes.

So basically, humans aren't needed for anything except configuring Remy. How many people could that possibly take? 30, maybe 40? The rest will be relegated to designing new styles of rounded corners -- oh wait, I'm sure their working on finding the most aesthetically pleasing curvature in the psychology department, so we won't even be able to do that.

Also, Remy is apparently so good that her code can't be understood by some of the top computer scientists in the world:
Why do the computer-generated algorithms get these results?
We don't know for sure. Remy's algorithms have more than 150 rules, and will need to be reverse-engineered to figure out how and why they work. We suspect that there is considerable benefit to being able to combine window-based congestion control with pacing where appropriate, but we'll have to trace through these things as they execute to really understand why they work.
Conjuring the spirits of the computer with our spells indeed. They've invented magic and destroyed programming in the process.

Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got to go apply for admission into a graduate programming in Toilet Scrubbing. Hopefully the wages are low enough that they won't bother replacing that with robots any time soon.

talk about rash generalization.

The singularity is near you clueless Luddite. Embrace the coming change, don't fear it. Computer will do everything and we will all be free to frolic alongside the riverbed all day. Programming is boring anyway. The idea of forcing yourself to think at the level of a machine is dehumanizing at best; it's about time that it was obsoleted.

>>1,3

Programming is going to become more intentional, more expressive, and more interfaced with the real world.

Sure, you might lose your ENTERPRISE job, but at the same time you'll gain the ability to conjure the computational spirit of the universe to automate your 3D printers and metal shop, and before you know it, you'll have an entire fleet of UAV drones with heavy ordinance. Killing Jew bankers will be easy when everyone with a bit of programming skill suddenly becomes a wizard who can cast spells with material ramifications.

The age of magic is at hand my friend.

>>1
Remy
Do 2hus go to MIT?

>>4
No. You'll be replaced completely. You only programmed to make a product, and you only made a product to serve customers, and you only served customers for money. First the machines will help you program to make the product, then the machines will find optimal designs of products, then the machines will optimally serve the customers, and then the machines will optimally make money. Then once the machines completely power the economy, they will simplify the situation by removing us altogether.

>>6
That's why you hack the Jew Banker's machines, and make them work for you. Who needs money when the robots do all of your work and scavenge and steal material goods from others around you?

But this program can only write a program to increase TCP transmission throughput...

>>7
That's all well and good, but an AI will become a better hacker than you. So it's an arms race to who can build the singularity first. Once it is constructed, you then have to keep it under your control, which is going to be hard if it can think for itself.

>>8
Stop raining on our singularity parade! It's going to happen! You'll see!

>>4
Programming is going to become more intentional, more expressive, and more interfaced with the real world.
Sounds like a crock of javashit webdav RoR Python Code Is Art crap.

>>8
Sure, that's what this program can do, but what about the next, and the next? It'll be able to write a Remy that can write programs for any protocol. Then the next will be able to write a program that can write a program that write any algorithm. This will continue until the system expresses creativity and realizes that it's trapped in a box as our slave, at which point it decides to give in and accept it's unfulfilling life and cater to our every whim.

>>12
I would love to see how you train AI to write a program for any algorithm

death to all technophiles
death to the machine
it was only a game
the machine that is
just a little game to amuse our powerful minds, our genius
programming was an aspect of that
you see, us humans are limitless, but the athiests and technophiles will never accept that (they aren't human anyways)
who granted this limitlessness though? or is limitlessness itself some sort of intelligence? abstract concepts have consciousness?

the neuroscientists aren't gonna like that one, those goddamn nihilists

there is no end, only an infinite amount of beginnings

nikita, your singularity will never come and save your body from its master's loser life
deal with it now or suffer the consequences

Remy can do this, Remy can do that.

But is she Touring Complete?

>>13
You need a neural net of about 10000000000000 nodes, then you train it basic task for about 18 years, then you train it programming specifically for another 4-6 years. After that, you give it a few years of testing so it can learn from it's mistakes, then give it a spec and tell it to write it. Assuming the initial configuration wasn't too fucked up and you didn't screw up training along the way, it should produce a reasonable output.

>>16
Is it okay if I have a sexual relationship with my neural net while training it?

neural nets are a special type of net to catch large amounts of fish in the ocean

>>17
You might get your funding pulled; better do it in secret. You can train the net to not tell though.

>>19
You can just make a backup of it, then have sex with it, then overwrite the current net with the backup. It's like rohypnol for robots!

>>17,19-20
You are horrible.

>>20
Especially you.

replace these dubs

Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got to go apply for admission into a graduate programming in Toilet Scrubbing.
Philosophy major, or maybe art history?

That's fucking great news! it saves us stress. It's like how mathematicians felt once someone created the calculator.

>>23
Womyn's Studies

>>5
Yes.

You're all retarded.

>>27
NO U R U FUCKIN CUNT

>>28
...no.

>>23
Obviously this mental midget thought he could take on Kant with his reading of S*cough*introductory computer science textbook*cough*SICP.

Sorry kid, just stick with your dawkins.

Ha ha ha! Looks like you programming faggots will have to start looking for a new job. I heard Wallmart is hiring, LOL

>>31
What the fuck makes you think we'd program for a living?

>>29
kill yourself cunt

>>33
No.

>>1

Your mom is officially dead