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@shtrom @jwildeboer The cheaper they get the less garbage the vendors can afford to try and ram in to inflate the prices to stupid level.
There's not much infotainment in a Citroen Ami for example 8)

@Infrogmation @ChrisMayLA6 We had an English pope (who is part of the fault for the Ireland mess) so surely we took over Vatican City at some point.

@dan @larsmb @jzb That's not really an LLM problem though - that's a very targetted problem being solved using an LLM as a large hammer, and a hammer that makes mistakes where formal methods and formal method dervied tools do not in general do

As to "find the plausible stack overflow answer and copy-paste it, changing the names", part of my job at Intel was catching people doing this and dropping them in the shit. Automated versus wilful human copyright violation 8)

@larsmb @jzb Agreed. I used the word "generally" for a reason. There are plenty of cases where both are appropriate parts of treatment.

@jzb an interesting comparison is a 1970s show about the rise of the microprocessor ue 8080 that then had a discussion. The one person arguing it was good was the unions rep who correctly argued it would automate a load of tedious stuff and enable other work.
The difference this time is that generative AI doesn't do useful work Neural nets do and boring uses of the tech but not LLMs.

@error It's an utter pain in the arse when writing a compiler too, and even worse is when goto gets involved.

@saramg Dell have always been pretty clued up on anything that affects their margins, and pretty brutal if it makes the margins go the wrong way.

@randahl @thierry_van_kerm which is also a risk even if the supplier is honest. It's how the Russians destroyed a whole load of satellite kit just before Ukraine kicked off. Compromise the vendor downloads and ship firmware that physically burns the flash memory. At that point it's probably a PCB swap to restore for most users. A PCB that won't be stocked in bulk, probably uses components no longer manufactured and cannot trivially be mass manufactured again.