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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by drewcoo on Sunday December 03, 2023 @02:11PM (#38509802)
> I expect you could get a 90% solution faster, but the whole challenge with these projects is how to get that last bit of correctness, and how to be confident enough in the correctness of it to actually use it in Production.

Is the goal to get working systems or to generate support activity? Or to tank the systems and replace them?

> it's a management problem, and no AI tech is going to fix that

What if we replace middle managers with LLMs?

Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by dun44 on Sunday December 03, 2023 @04:43PM (#38511056)
90% of middle management could be replaced with simple shell scripts; LLM would be a vast overkill.