"AI is compression — you can't create information out of nothing": a rebuttal to AI coding takes
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-20
Responding to the claim that 90% of coding work from the past 50 years could now be done by machines in 1/10,000th the time, gerardsans argues that AI works via compression: you can't compress information without data, and AI can't capture new information before it's created.
The exchange is a direct rebuttal to "AI rendered past engineering effort worthless" narratives — information must first be discovered and produced before AI can leverage it.
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