[MichaelRo]

>>“Well I fixed that showstopper bug! And everyone agreed it had a big impact.”

>>“It looks like the fix was just one line of code.”

>>“Yeah but it took me two days to find that one line haha, you know how it goes.”

>>“I don’t. I went to business school.”

Was this article written by a LLM? Coze that's the most made-up, cliché, unrealistic, middle school parody-level perception of how businesses operate.

Any reasonably large and old company with a software base will have a god-awful overengineered incomprehensible duct-tape wrapped ball of mud that needs constant pampering and costly maintenance. With most task being very much "find the needle in the haystack" type, with the needle being that "one line" indeed but the problem in finding it being, obviously, the haystack. And this "needle finding" being that one thing that totally and definitely all this AI hype can't do shit about. Literally nothing, all those 700 billions burned into LLM training are absolutely orthogonal and useless with respect to the real problem maintenance and development of legacy software (that is most software) poses.

[marcosdumay]

Hum... Yeah, it's a parody.

But then you already expended a huge paragraph explaining how it's realistic. So I don't understand your complaint.