Have none of the OpenAPI folks read "The Adolescence of P-1", because this is how you generate a self-aware G.A.I. (at least, in fiction and in Canada).
Thomas Ryan's 1977 masterpiece shows what an unrestrained A.I. might do in the service of its own growth (hint: don't try to fly anywhere if you irritate it). I really never thought we'd get to this point in A.I., yet here we are. Buckle up!
It's amazing how well suited graybeards are to test and test automation. We've made the same mistakes (but with memory leaks), and while most companies are not devoted to testing, the larger ones are (especially if regulated) and they find graybeards a good fit.
In 1979 I acquired an Ohio Scientific Challenger 2 with a floppy drive (4P). It was a 6502 based single-board machine with 24k RAM (everything was soldered in), a monochrome NTSC composite signal video display port (24 x 80?), and even a UART that one could activate by cutting a trace, or by sending the machine back to OSI with several hundred dollars so *they* could cut the trace (seriously, guys? You were selling this to hobbyists with soldering irons).
The machine was not awful but the software and BIOS were. I don't remember the floppy DOS being particularly useful (something about the user having to manage sector allocation! for files). It did encourage me to learn 6502 machine code -- the only sure-fired way to program the damned thing.
I sold it to a music store in Denton, TX but to this day I wish I had retained it.
Quantum Mechanics is a lovely introduction to Hilbert Spaces! -- Overheard at last year's Archimedeans' Garden Party
