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Re:The Flash C Compiler by aleph_minus_one on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:49AM (#50404108)
On the other hand: many managers love to claim to have been deeply involved in the development of some product when the actual work was done at least by their underlings, or sometimes even a completely different team.

If people were similar confrontive in calling out such managers ...

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Re:The Flash C Compiler by jhbadger on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:15AM (#50405259)
Or any project of any size -- scientists running a lab rarely do the experiments or data analysis themselves -- they have graduate students and postdocs for that. Their job is to decide what those people work on.
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Re:The Flash C Compiler by aleph_minus_one on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:22AM (#50405319)
With the same argument, you can argue that it is the programmer's job to decide which LLM shall work on the problem, and the programmer still gets the credit for the work. :-)
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Re:The Flash C Compiler by jhbadger on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:28AM (#50405360)
Yes, that's my point -- assuming the programmer actually spent some time thinking it through.
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