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by josephcsible 20 days ago
> It’s all the same just different syntax.

That reminds me of Chris Reigrut's story from https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Holiday_Smorgasbord

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> Support : I'm telling you, nothing changed!!! The only difference between the old version and the new version is that the old version was in COBOL, and the new one is in C!!!

Thanks for the chuckles!

I don't know why but AI and LLMs seems to make people to lose basic sense of rationality. I didn't think we would have seen so many comments such as "It’s all the same just different syntax" after a full rewrite some years ago.
AI psychosis is really a sight to behold. Perhaps most worryingly, otherwise intelligent people don't seem to be any more safe from it.
>>> //How did this happen??

>>> log.fatal("Aaaaarrrgghhhh");

Reminds me of working at a small Japanese company and someone had written a try-catch for retrieving a crucial bit of config that just logged "X missing. This is disuster." and terminated.