Oh boy, are you me? I’ve spent most of my life feeling like Cassandra. I’m not even particularly smart, but it’s like a lot of people just can’t see the incredibly obvious and inevitable outcomes of their actions?

Come onnn, 12 Monkeys 🤞

It’s understandable that companies wanted to protect their software, but this method was a bit feeble. On the ZX Spectrum at least, it could be overcome by a single POKE!

Still, at least it wasn’t the horrible, user-hostile LensLok system…

Which, despite the name, is an Israeli company. I highly doubt Israel will get kicked out while MO is running the show.

For the love of Trump, Montresor!

For the love of god, Anakin!

This might cheer you up: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

I don’t think we have anything to worry about just yet. LLMs are nothing but well-trained parrots. They can’t analyse problems or have intuitions about what will work for your particular situation. They’ll either give you something general copied and pasted from elsewhere or spin you a yarn that sounds plausible but doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Getting an AI to produce functional large-scale software requires someone to explain precisely the problem domain: each requirement, business rule, edge case, etc. At which point that person is basically a developer, because I’ve never met a project manager who thinks that granularly.

They could be good for generating boilerplate, inserting well-known algorithms, generating models from metadata, that sort of grunt work. I certainly wouldn’t trust them with business logic.