Quoting Robin Sloan, All that is solid melts into code, 2025

So it’s paradoxical: language models are some of the most organic technologies ever produced, totally capable of coaxing computation out into the realm of the human … yet instead they’ll pull a vast field of human activity deeper into the domain of code.
— Robin Sloan, All that is solid melts into code, 2025

11:01pm on November 25, 2025 from Tbilisi, Georgia


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