ML Veteran Burkov: MIT CSAIL's 'library like a love song' joke hasn't aged well
burkov · x · 2026-11-14
MIT CSAIL once quoted programmer Pete Cordell: "Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love."
ML author Andriy Burkov quipped that the joke hasn't aged well — in the AI coding era, existing libraries are exactly what models can find and reuse, flipping the punchline.
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