that statement saying "actually, dumping hundreds of brute-forced proofs does not help with the practice and advancement of mathematics" is exactly the line software devs should take, but programmer pop culture has always valued short term convenience over most other concerns, so here we are
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software development as a field in general (outside of niche circles of enthusiasts) has never had much of an interest in thinking very hard about the nature of the work, so the appeal of "machine that gives the appearance of doing the work for me" is obvious
"brute forcing proofs does not help mathematics" and "brute forcing programs does not help software" are, per philip wadler, literally the same statement
@jcoglan we keep saying this and it gets a bunch of people shoving their slop in our face going "YOU NEED TO ADMIT IT'S USEFUL"
@glassresistor idk any reasonable thought process that concludes with "and the garbage-spewing machine is a good use"
to think this stuff is useful you have to have an ontologically fucked idea of what the work actually is. this applies to almost all applications of this technology