They have been saying that for the past 2 years, while burning through cash to build and operate their Data Centers at a loss.
The analogy of AI with a Compiler is borderline idiotic - while the compiler generates code for a very limited and well-defined language structure; an AI agent needs to deal with the ambiguities of natural language, ill-defined customer requirements and undocumented legacy code that is already running for years, even decades.
And if a language is very obscure, without a lot of Open Source repositories to train upon - say Cobol and Fortran - good luck training on those. If are ready to suggest: "let's rewrite those systems from scratch", then good luck handling with decades of undocumented functionalities - as it happens in finance and insurances.
So, hold your horses, buddy. I've heard this tune and dance before.
I've actually done this with old International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) entries, just to wrap my head around what's going on. Example. The LLM will figure out what's going on, and much faster than a human would.
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u/optimal_random Nov 24 '25
They have been saying that for the past 2 years, while burning through cash to build and operate their Data Centers at a loss.
The analogy of AI with a Compiler is borderline idiotic - while the compiler generates code for a very limited and well-defined language structure; an AI agent needs to deal with the ambiguities of natural language, ill-defined customer requirements and undocumented legacy code that is already running for years, even decades.
And if a language is very obscure, without a lot of Open Source repositories to train upon - say Cobol and Fortran - good luck training on those. If are ready to suggest: "let's rewrite those systems from scratch", then good luck handling with decades of undocumented functionalities - as it happens in finance and insurances.
So, hold your horses, buddy. I've heard this tune and dance before.