What Generative AI Reveals About the State of Software?

A critique of LLM behavior that turns into a critique of the code they’re trained on; and the culture that produced it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mirror-machine-what-generative-ai-reveals-state-software-mehmet-efe-xlizc/

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What Generative AI Reveals About the State of Software?

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