deech on Nostr: Yes! An AI that could reliably slurp up a rando 100k loc codebase and whittle it to ...

Yes! An AI that could reliably slurp up a rando 100k loc codebase and whittle it to 5k or less loc would make it far harder to ignore for me independent of other costs.

As it stands aside from limiting my short term career options I find it very easy to ignore.

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Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

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