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by getnormality 298 days ago
This guy thinks bus factors of zero started with ChatGPT. Hahahahahaha. Adorable.

How many of you have asked about a process and been told that nobody knows how it works because the person who developed it left the company?

There was a blog post at the top of HN about this, like, yesterday.

I hate the current AI hype hothouse and everything it seems to be doing to the industry... but I couldn't help but laugh.

The post is great. Bus factor of zero is a great coinage.

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The difference is this isn't some legacy system that still exists a decade later. It's brand new with the tag still on. And it wasn't designed by a conscious being but by probability.

I've seen from beautiful to crazy legacy systems in various domains. But when I encounter something off, there appears to always be a story. Not so much with LLMs.

It got hit by a bus before it was born.