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Re:Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance ... by Alive-in-2025 on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:07PM (#50347535)
I've been thinking AI writing the software would get us to huge messes of software stacks that kind of work and no one really understands how they work. Like a giant magic software tower than no one can touch or understand, just hope it keeps working.
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Re:Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance ... by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:28AM (#50352429)
> software stacks that kind of work and no one really understands how they work

We've been heading that way for a long time before AI. AI is definitely making it worse in many cases, by lowering the bar to getting something that "works".

Like, you could write a web server in R. You'd need to bang your head against a wall for a while, which might make you think again, but with LLMs it's just a machine that is insanely goal oriented working very quickly.

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