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This is effectively a claim that Mozillia, Apple, Google's developers are idiots and irresponsible and just accepted the fixes without checking them. That's a pretty strong claim which I think you'd have a hard time proving or even finding any evidence for

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I think LLMs are particularly effective at turning once-competent developers into idiots. (“Just ask Claude.”)

I mean no such claim. One does not have to be an idiot or irresponsible to overlook an unintended consequence of some code change in a very large, legacy code base.

If that claim were even reasonable in the first place you would have to accept that they were idiots long before by allowing bugs to be introduced in the first place.

The presence or introduction of bugs in software does not mean it’s developers are ‘idiots’ unless practically everyone who has ever written code is an ‘idiot’

Yes I didn't say this. I'm using it to show how absurd the original claim was.

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