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Comment Scam busters have always had their addresses (Score 1) 25

They are able to watch them work, see them enter the buildings on CC TV. Knowing where they are has never been the issue. The problem has been the paid off authorities and the idea that ripping off North Americans is good for India's GDP. Maybe the scammers just didn't make their payoffs this month.

Comment How about the consequences to maintainability? (Score 2) 67

Code needs to be maintained. If that C++ code was hacked together just to match the assembler code created by the AI there may not be any logic that human programmers can follow to allow them to modify the code going forward. That could mean forever dependence on the AI for that section of the code. Not a good thing.

Comment Which is why I haven't printed anything for 5 yrs (Score 1) 212

This kind of thing has been going on forever. Even when you bought the official ink you never got full use of it for one reason or another. Since then I've always found a way of avoiding printing, and it seems easier and easier every year to get away with it.

Comment ChatGPT is appearing on Quora now (Score 5, Interesting) 59

When I ask questions now invariably at least several answers will have been generated by ChatGPT. How do I know? Simple. I put my question into ChatGPT before posting on Quora. There's some variation but the first lines of ChatGPT answers tend to be identical no matter how many times you regenerate.

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