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AI tech bros try to convince us that the slop machines are able to write good code, and that they will be able to inspect it for bugs and vulnerabilities.

You've probably heard the opposite from those annoying corporate types with a shiny and popular LinkedIn profile.

Almost every piece of text you can consume online is now having this syntactically-shiny, perfectly-spelled package with a rather shallow and unoriginal semantic core.

Conventional wisdom tells you that LLMs are good at automating the generation of boring, repetitive boilerplate code.

Rust encourages a rather different "high-level" programming style that doesn't suit the domains where C excels.

We use these tools as know-it-all assistants that can answer questions in all areas of human knowledge.

Being rational with regards to the surrounding natural and physical world is undeniably good for our survival.

I can remember my first teenage attempts at learning programming in an imperative OO style with C++ in the late 1990s.