How often does a solution need “new” code and not “basically the same code as a previous issue but with two small details changed”? This is a genuine question, I have only ever coded as a hobby. But 25% of your work being essentially just copy pasted sounds plausible, and that’s sorta all LLMs are doing, right?

The point isn’t that we’ll never get there. The point is we sure as shit aren’t there yet.

The west

Are authoritarian regimes somehow supposed to be more opposed to using children to promote heightened surveillance?

Private companies can be dicks. Public companies can and will be sued by their shareholders if they aren’t big enough dicks.