AI Comes for the If Statement: Tomasz Tunguz on AI replacing hardcoded rule logic
hardimanjames · x · 2026-09-22
Tomasz Tunguz publishes "AI Comes for the If Statement," using a grocery-sorting example (bananas to produce, cookies to snacks) to argue that hardcoded if/else rule logic across applications is being taken over by AI models that understand and decide directly.
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