I have exactly the same problem copying code I have found on the web and now AI. Typing it in instead of copy pasting is a huge help, especially if I change variable and function names and reformat on the fly.

the first was so abysmally bad I stopped watching midway through on relative's cable tv. I hear the 2nd was worse, just riding on the name of the first. A 3rd? who consumes this slop?

No, you're showing your overactive imagination. That they were goners is the most likely thing.

Don't know what you're talking about, me and my coworkers had the exact same work before, during and after covid and we did it. We worked on systems that weren't in the company's buildings anyway. No advantage to being present in same cube farm or using online chat & meetings. Sure once ever few months we show up in the colo and work on the gear, that also kept on going.

In short, no way to just draw pay and not do the work.

No arrogance, those of us that can do stuff can still get the remote days

Or is it "Remember the idiots who confused NCAR with NOAA and thought NOAA modeling and forecasting tools would disappear with NCAR."

Like the idiots who think the Department of Education actually educated kids, and don't seem to realize education had higher quality before Carter created that agenda driven propaganda organ in the 1970s.

The fact that you believe they HOPE to accomplish anything tells me all we need to know, you are not interested in a rational discussion of reality but only your romantic notions.

NOAA is not part of NCAR, they do forecasts of weather including hurricanes without it.

I came across some Emacs elisp code I'd written about 25 years ago, and it looked pretty useful. Emacs didn't like it. I researched the functions and variables and they apparently had been rejiggered about 5 years later. I said to myself, Self, sez I, this could be an interesting AI test. I could probably make this do what I want in a few minutes now if I did it from scratch, but that wouldn't help me understand why it was written that way 25 years ago.

So I asked Grok. I was pleasantly surprised to find it understood 25 year old elisp code just fine, explained when and how they had been rejiggered, and rewrite it for the current standards. That was more than I had expected and well worth the time invested.

One other time Grok surprised me was asking how much of FDR's New Deal legislation would have passed if it had required 2/3 passage instead of just 1/2. Not only did it name the legislation which would not have passed, it also named all the legislation which had passed by voice vote and there was no way to know if 2/3 had voted for it. The couple of bills I checked did match and were not hallucinations. The voice vote business was a nice surprise.

I program now for fun, not professionally. The idea of "offshoring" the fun to AI doesn't interest me. But trying to find 25-year-old documentation and when it changed doesn't sound like fun, and I'm glad to know I can offshore at least some of the dreary parts.

are you confused? Those predictions aren't made by NCAR. NOOA is not part of it.

There is zero benefit to the people you mention; learn how things work before making up romantic notions of what NCAR does.

You are hilarious. What have USA policy makers actually done?

You the one with irrelevant romantic notions.

you're funny, what have "policy makers" in USA really done? You don't think other countries have them?

you're making lot of assumptions; maybe dead callers were doomed anyway and beyond saving.

they can sue but what if it was likely they'd die anyway? making a call doesn't guarantee you're salvagaeble.

NCAR doesn't change the weather, climate or pollution. Those will happen anyway. Pull the plug.

"NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) has historically focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through initiatives to broaden participation in atmospheric sciences, especially for underrepresented groups, by partnering with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and offering internship blah blah blah"

More leftist "everyone gets a pony" bullshit

chopping a bloated government with fas social agendas down to size is great, even if it takes an orange clown to do it.

"they support the scientists who fly into hurricanes!" What sensationalist claptrap, nothing useful from that has resulted in decades.