i agree with the first part

same, i also abuse free trials pretty hard.

(virtual credit cards and visa gift cards with little to no money on them work great)

jesus christ you should be shoved into a locker

hmm, this is sort of helpful.

this is pretty much what i think, yeah.

a lot of programming/software design is already kinda that anyway. it’s a bunch of people who were educated on computer science principles, data structures, mathematicians, and data analytics/stats who write code to specs to solve very specific tool problems for very specific subsets of workers, and who maintain/update legacy code written decades ago.

now, yeah, a lot things are coded from scratch, but even then, you’re referencing libraries of code written by someone awhile ago to solve this problem or serve this purpose or do thing, output thing. that’s where LLMs shine, imo.

i didn’t downvote you, regardless internet points don’t matter.

you’re not wrong, and i largely agree with what you’ve said, because i didn’t actually say a lot of the things your comment assumes.

the most efficient way i can describe what i mean is this:

LLMs (this is NOT AI) can, and will, replace more and more of us. however, there will never, ever be a time where there will be no human overseeing it because we design software for humans (generally), not for machines. this requires integral human knowledge, assumptions, intuition, etc.

exactly, this will eliminate some jobs, but anyone who’s asked an LLM to fix code longer than 400 lines knows it often hurts more than it helps.

which is why it is best used as a tool to debug code, or write boilerplate functions.

this rules, thank you!!

would a factory reset destroy any driver/codec updates, or are those a firmware based changes that wouldn’t be overwritten?

well said.

what a save!
what a save! what a save!

i was banned for similar reasons.

seems like a lot of mods just have the ability to say whatever about whoever and the admins just nuke any account they target.