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usonian

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4. A problem as I see it, is that when you offer and suport code, it has to be very well documented.

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 26, 2026, 02:57 PM

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AI tends to reinvent the wheel every time you ask it something, and currently, there are no solid libraries of thoroughly tested code that you can call. I recall some math packages that are incredibly well tested.

So, a customer calls, desperately asking for a fix, and you have zero clue as to what the code is, except by reverse engineering.

And software is one of the few areas with useful results so far.

Useful, to a point.

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