And one of my favorite examples how fancy names impact popularity. Also see Mersenne Twister.

It’s procedural generation but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. People today might use a big generative NN model to do this, using maybe a thousand times as much energy to get essentially the same result. Gen AI is definitely a big step forward in our relentless drive to make software more inefficient in order to compensate for any efficiency gains that the hardware guys come up with.

It's like simple n-gram Markov chain algorithms vs modern LLMs for text

Read that as "only depends on the base dotnet runtime." I think the C# compiler at least can emit native code these days, but I'm not primarily a dotnet dev either so not too familiar with that.

It’s interesting this article uses the phrase, “you feed it the vibe your going for,” about 5 years before “vibe coding” became a common term.