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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by Terr_ on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:43PM (#44565016)
> Well, LLMs are themselves very broad.

I think overstating their broad-ness is core to the hype-cycle going on. Everyone wants to believe—or wants a buyer to believe—that a machine which can grow documents about X is just as good (and reliable) as actually creating X.

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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by sebastiennight on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:01AM (#44569878)
Since APIs exist (including APIs that allow you to get a human to execute the task), a machine which can grow specs about X is able to create real-world X in many, many situations.

A machine which can define a valid CAD document can get the actual product built (even if the building requires manual assembly).

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