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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by jacquesm on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:59PM (#50169331)
> "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

That's a great way of putting it. So far I always used 'you can outsource work but you can't outsource responsibility'.

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Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine by airspresso on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:06PM (#50171929)
> "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

Legendary quote from an internal 1979 IBM training document [1]

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...

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