This classical model frequently positioned memory and recall as both the central enablers of, and bottlenecks in, software development.

Today’s AI-powered coding assistants are changing that. These tools function as external memory systems, offloading syntax recall, boilerplate generation, and API usage from human to machine memory.

This is a good way of putting it imo

fwiw it does seem to be true that there are programs in that region for restoring ecosystems by dumping used oyster shells: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/gulf-coast-oyster-shell-recycling-key-sustainable-seafood-and-coastal-protection, so the main uplifting part isn’t phony.

I just think the “no one expected it to work” and “it worked much better than expected” claims are bogus AI hallucinations and that the article was generated without actual research, even automated research. Some of the keywords in the article are hyperlinks, and one of them is relevant to the topic of the article, but the rest are totally irrelevant, so I think what happened is the article was generated first, and there’s some algorithm for finding relevant links that was applied after.

See, even that would be a step up because I’d know you heard it from Tony

It’s a very weird article, in that it tells a narrative about what went well with the oyster shells but does not quote or cite any sources for where that information is coming from. I don’t think journalism is supposed to work that way.