[jll29]

The European Union has just made producers of software liable for bugs, as has been the case with other e.g. electronic products already for a long time.

This means it would be quite risky for companies to rely on only a few junior developers that can only copy & paste from ChatGPT.

But LLMs are useful for initial boilerplat generation if one is careful to vet the result (in particular error handling is often incomplete or missing because the models are trained from Internet tutorials rather than robust production software).

[lazide]

Wouldn’t this instead incentivize outsourcing?

If you wrote the software, you’re liable. If you’re just paying someone to write the software, they are?

Liability can be pretty large in many cases, so outsourcing to a jurisdiction where that liability isn’t present/enforced sure sounds like a huge plus.