You can't just leave them, they'll eventually fail and it costs way too much to bring them up to code and maintain them.

This is one of the very rare "everyone wins" stories. Environmentalists, cities, water districts and wildlife all come away better.

Law is extremely unforgiving. In general, you get one shot at it, and if you lose, that's it. No do overs, and the consequences can be life-altering. That's why so many things in law are the way they are, and why it's illegal to practice law without a license.

Because the stakes are so high, lawyers are also vehicles for liability. If you ask one for advice and you lose because that advice was wrong, you can at least recoup damages from them.

You lose all those protections with a chatbot.

I was allowing it for the sake of argument, because, yeah, any app of any reasonable size is not simple.

Law looks like rules, but it's not. It's centuries of codified human drama and fighting. It's mostly edge cases, because you really only fight when something goes wrong.

On top of that, lawyers are vehicles for liability. Can't give that to a chatbot lol

If you don't have that, look at how many people bitch that Google or Paypal or whatever cut them off with no warning and no concern for the circumstances. Now imagine that, but like for your house or your kids.

Law is not clear, rational code. Law is human drama, in all its many, many forms.

They just subpoena for whatever they want to know, it's not a new problem for them.

For someone the size of GitHub, the cloud is not infinite or infinitely scalable, and running their own datacenters is fine and completely normal and not at all "aging" or "crippled". Like the meme says, the cloud is just someone else's computer running in someone else's datacenter.

The traffic increases they cite as the reason are absolutely the reason. Those numbers are insane.

Yeah, it's not like the CEOs of both companies have been saying their product might put everyone out of a job or destroy humanity entirely. Or saying some models were too scary to release publicly and then doing just that. Oh, wait.

"Want" being the critical word here.

AI writing sucks because there's no intent or choice behind it. It's human thought, blended by linear algebra into pink slime and extruded into sentences.

It's also a critical part of your security model. "Nobody can deploy code by themselves" is shockingly effective at preventing rogue actions.

Modern software development practice is built around that humans do make mistakes. Frequently. You don't cross your fingers and hope for the best, you assume it will happen and you put processes in place to prevent errors, catch them early, and make them easy to recover from.

It is a for-real science.

I'm gonna be real with you, my dude, this 100% sounds like you wanting to feel clever and superior rather than actually being that way.

I, too, love me some hard puzzle games. Baba Is You does some wild things with the mechanics that make you feel super clever when you figure it out. However, games are deliberately designed to give you those moments. That's why they're fun. They're an experience.

Waving your hands around vaguely and going "you must experience the maaaaaaaagic of aaaaaiiiiiiiiii" does not make you sound like a great and powerful wizard with secret knowledge, it kinda just makes you sound like that kid who took yugioh way too seriously and believed in the heart of the cards.

I don't get FOMO when I hear people talk about their super secret prompting techniques, because if it was actually smart, they'd want me to know lol. So far I'm batting 1.000 on that conjecture.