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Before You Can Have Smalltalk, You Must First Defeat Capitalism

At SPLASH 2024 there were a few talks and sessions that felt a bit like lamentations. - Richard P.

Graduate students struggle with high rents, low stipends, heavy work loads and big loans. I talked to an undergraduate student at SPLASH, and he was telling us about some neat work he helped with to do LLMs and code auto-completion. The title of this blog post is at least a little sarcastic, but I think is an honest to goodness truth: If you want to build a future that involves beautiful systems like Smalltalk, you must first rebuild the economic environment wherein it could be built.

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