we built slop to evaluate the slop. it's slop all the way down

should add Meson does building of code in many other languages too, I was only speaking of Rust and C libraries in systemd context

I'm more triggered by the claim that Meson is not using Cargo, it's a Cargo wrapper that also links. Of course, systemd is what ran down Satan's leg when he made Satan spawn, it's Satan spawn leftovers.

That's what the in-class exams and quizzes are for.

The in-class exams and quizzes solved that problem too.

PLEASE learn to use line breaks and paragraph breaks. Your text is almost unreadable.

I teach post-secondary students and I stopped giving out homework literally years ago. I only do in-class evaluation. This professor found out students use AI just now?

That sounds great, until the OS vendor stops supporting the OS you are currently running, requiring an OS upgrade that may involve a hardware upgrade.

Running an OS that no longer gets security updates is typically not an option for any organization of a certain size.

Awesome. But would you put such a system into production in todays environment? These are corporate users relying on their computers for revenue-producing efforts, not a toy in their basement running text-based games.

Your listed FOSS benefits exist because the user assumes responsibility for support, the moment you rely on an outside source for support they will dictate upgrade cycles.

"every successful story i've heard involves a human with real-world experience using that experience to ensure ai doesn't get it wrong. what about when the real world experience has all left"

Sure does. And every word of those interactions goes through and is retained by the vendors building the models. It's the 'train your replacement' system. This is why they are pushing staff to use AI so hard because that's how they get you to train the next generation of AI.

AI doesn't write *most* of my code, it writes *all* my code. I used to try to cling to the illusion by using the integrate with an IDE helper format but have since ditched it. That doesn't mean someone without my decades of experience would get the same results. Is the code ugly? Sure, but no human needs to read it so who cares? I still approve the overall design and spec, the detailed 'what does this code do' and overall implementation scheme either come from me or are a approved by me.

I don't see a single line of any of that code let alone write it. But every line goes through a full functional testing framework including vulnerability/bug scanning, aligns to a coding style spec + lint, and has additional checks and filters I've built for special consideration of vulnerabilities and injections at the seams. Claude even kicked off and builds infrastructure for backends and manages infrastructure as code.

In fact, realizing that I don't feel the need to look at the code myself anymore I've started having it build things in and convert things to rust. If you were going to make me choose between eating a bullet and coding in rust for the rest of my life I'd need a minute to consider if living would be worth it under such conditions. But the AI doesn't care how much the EXPERIENCE of reading and writing in rust sucks and rewrites most of my python into fast and safe rust code in minutes.

"The real question might be whether bots can still write your code if there's domain-specific rules and habits."

AI proposals are rarely optimal out of the box. Give your agents identity and personas so that they have a continuity of existence as a meta layer over the model. This lets you replace the memory system with something better that can keep a knowledge-base of references, behavior doctrine/rules, PLAYBOOKS, and calibrations learned from experience [especially your feedback] over time. Agent's have no executive function capacity of their own so in addition to a code pipeline I layer productivity tools like project management/calendar/cron+scheduling/and ticketing into the mix.

It's no different than turnitin. If your business involves catching witches you will never run out of witches to catch. Even if it means manufacturing some.

That is extremely unlikely, but if it happens, people will switch to other AI engines.

I use Cursor for coding, which SpaceX now owns.

SpaceX (which may merge with Tesla soon) has deep pockets and an in-house need for AI, so it is even less likely to "close shop".

Even if Anthropic and OpenAI get in deep financial doo-doo, they won't close entirely. They might stop updating their models, but the existing models in static mode would be fine for coding. More likely, they would be acquired in a consolidation.

There are currently dozens of AI companies. I predict there will be fewer than five in a few years.

Datacenters provide a service, that service is charged against their customers, and revenue is generated, and that revenue is taxed.

Self-owned/private datacenters may be harder to tax, but ultimately something will be charged a fee and tax revenue will be collected.