> A few years ago we didn't have an imprecise nondeterministic programming language that would allow your mom to achieve SOTA results on a wide range of NLP tasks by asking nicely, or I'm sure people would have taken it.
But that (accurate) point makes your point invalid, so you'd rather focus on the dressing.
We still don't have that programming language (although "SOTA" and "wide range of NLP tasks" are vague enough that you can probably move the goalposts into field goal range).
And forget scripting languages, take a C program that writes a string to disk and reads it back.
How many times longer does it get the moment we have to ensure the string was actually committed to non-volatile NAND and actually read back? 5x? 10x?
Is it even doable if we have to support arbitrary consumer hardware?