[hliyan]

Do typesetters inexplicably change the meaning of the book or document being typeset? Do compilers alter the behavior intended by the programmer, sometimes in ways that are not immediately obvious? Did the invention of typesetters lead to investments so massive, that the investors had to herald the end of handwriting (no equivalent analogy for compilers)?

[dwedge]

It reminds me of the guy who replaced his static blog deployment scripts with asking chatgpt to generate the html from his text based on a template, and said that he isn't sure that the llm isn't changing his writing but hopes it isn't

[robotresearcher]

On compilers, you know they do! Compilers have bugs and some languages have undefined behavior.

On typesetters and investment: the WYSIWYG word processor is on almost every home and office desk in the world.