The 30-Year-Old Problem Still Haunting Developers

Once I saw that the headline image was AI-generated, I skimmed the first paragraph and didn't find a lot of meaning in it. The dearth of content combined with an AI image made me suspect that the article itself might be AI-generated.

As a litmus test, I decided to check for the word "delve" to see whether it appeared in the text. According to an article I read in The Guardian[1], this word is more likely to appear in AI-generated responses to prompts. Sure enough, "delve" was right there in the second paragraph.

Of course, these two things combined aren't exactly a "smoking gun" proving that the whole thing is AI blog-spam, but I would bet it is (as first mentioned in another comment here). It's pretty wild to be living in a time where we have to be so wary of an entire article being prompt-engineered into existence by a lazy "author" eager for clicks.

References: 1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape...

Yes, "effectness", "effectivess" and "robusness", the Three Big Software Development Issues still haunting us all. Thank goodness we solved spell checking!

This all just feels downstream from "skin-in-the-game," which we still overwhelmingly do not have in software development.

Through regulation or liability, when software harms people negligently, you have to punish the creator(s). We've figured it out in other arenas, just have to do it here.

Pretend to give me stock, I pretend to give two shits.