Interesting point. I guess people liked the convenience of unlimited storage even more than they liked the convenience of keeping the same email address. In a way they traded one convenience for another.
I don't know much about CSS, but Turing completeness is notorious for showing up in systems unintentionally.
It doesn't take much to be Turing-complete - if a system provides unbounded read/write memory plus branching or conditional recursion you're usually there.
As an example, Magic The Gathering (the card game) is Turing-complete: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828 . You can use creature tokens as memory and various game mechanics to do flow control. Was this intentional by the designers? Most likely not...
* MOV x86: using memory mapped lookup tables, you can simulate logic gates and branching using only MOV.
* PowerPoint (Without Macros): using On-Click Animations and Hyperlinks, shapes on slides act as the tape and clicking them triggers animations that move the head or change the state of the slide.
* find and mkdir (Linux Commands): find has a -execdir flag executes commands for directories it finds. By using mkdir to create specific folder structures, you can create a feedback loop that functions as a Tag System (aka universal computation).
* Soldier Crabs: Researchers showed that swarms of Mictyris guinotae can be funneled through gates to implement Boolean logic. While a full computer hasn't been built with them, the logic gates (AND, OR, NOT) are the building blocks for one.
Even water is Turing Complete:
* Fluidic Logic Gates: the Coandă effect is the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface. By using tiny air or water jets to push a main stream from one channel to another, you can create the fluid equivalent of a transistor.
* MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer)
* Navier-Stokes equations describe how fluids move are TC.
* In 2015, Stanford researchers developed a computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets. Tiny iron-infused water droplets moved by magnetic fields through a maze of tracks. The presence or absence of a droplet represents a 1 or a 0. By colliding or diverting each other, the droplets interact perform calculations.
Perhaps so, but ISTM that it encapsulates the same basic point. Try to make something rich and general and you often end up re-implementing a whole computer inside your computer.
Which is why these days it's easier in many cases to just embed an Arm core and implement your controller's functionality in software.
Sure, but the article is talking about people who can and do read code now but will develop software without reading code in the future. Kind of like you rarely look at the object code that the compiler produces.
My guess is that Google has teams working on catching up with Claude Code, and I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to close the gap significantly or even surpass it.
Google has the datasets, the expertise, and the motivation.
So why was Moltbook full of security holes? I don't doubt that you can use AI to fix some bugs, but that probably requires at least someone writing prompts who cares about and understands the bugs.
It's like the old story about hiring a carpenter who just hammers in a nail to fix a squeaky floor. The difficult part was finding where the nail needs to go, not necessarily the hammering.
In my experience dealing with e.g. Amazon Prime Video customer service, the actual people working on customer service can't do those jobs well either. As an example, I've complained multiple times to them about live sports streams getting interrupted and showing an "event over" notice while the event is still happening. It's a struggle to get them to understand the issue let alone to get it fixed. They haven't been helpful a single time.
So if AI improves a bit, it might be better than the current customer service workers in some ways...
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