they really have nothing, huh. they're insisting that not only do you want their slop, they are going to make you pay more for it even if you don't want it, because they know you want it so bad.

cannot wait for this all to blow up.

I do not believe for a second that 20-30% of deployed code at MS has been written by LLMs. I believe that a giant volume of it has been *generated*, reviewed, found not usable, and discarded.

I wish some less credulous tech press person would actually press CEOs on idiotic claims like this.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fa...

> “We were shocked,” says Penadés. “I sent an email to Google saying, you have access to my computer. Is that right? Because otherwise I can’t believe what I’m reading here.”
> However, the team did publish a paper in 2023 – which was fed to the system – about how this family of mobile genetic elements “steals bacteriophage tails to spread in nature”. At the time, the researchers thought the elements were limited to acquiring tails from phages infecting the same cell. Only later did they discover the elements can pick up tails floating around outside cells, too.