Algorithm Heuristic Machine Learning

Algorithm - when programmers don't want to explain what they did. Heuristic – when programmers can't explain what they did. Machine Learning – when programmers don't know what they did.

A Twitter-style screenshot lists three increasingly evasive explanations for how programmers create software: “algorithm,” “heuristic,” and “machine learning.” The joke is that the terms progress from deliberate concealment to genuine uncertainty, poking fun at opaque programming and AI systems.

• @dev_meme / 1249 2020-04-04