[mdp2021]

> Then it cited an answer I gave on Stack Overflow [...] using this as evidence for my technical expertise. Turns out that about 15 years ago, I _asked_ a question on this topic, but the answer was submitted by someone else

Artificial dementia...

Some parties are releasing products much earlier than the ability to ship well working products (I am not sure that their legal cover will be so solid), but database aided outputs should and could become a strong limit to that phenomenon of remembering badly. Very linearly, like humans: get an idea, then compare it to the data - it is due diligence and part of the verification process in reasoning. It is as if some moves outside linear pure product progress reasoning are swaying the RnD towards directions outside the primary concerns. It's a form of procrastination.