31/03 16:40.38 < TrevorH> https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/ 31/03 16:47.40 < Bahhumbug> "Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills" 31/03 16:47.47 < Bahhumbug> That time was some time back actually :) 31/03 16:48.15 < Bahhumbug> Also: "expect massive headcount hits" 31/03 16:48.59 < Bahhumbug> It's bad when the company gaslights their own employees :( 31/03 16:49.32 < TrevorH> I'm sure we can also expect an increase in QA headcount to catch the inevitable bugs that AI generated code will contain 31/03 16:49.37 < TrevorH> right? 31/03 16:52.58 < Bahhumbug> QA is one of the things that ML is good at. Not sure why they still have a QA department to be honest. 31/03 16:53.32 < Bahhumbug> If nothing else toss a LLM at making up coverage tests for OpenQA. 31/03 16:53.41 < TrevorH> I think I got out of computing just at the right time 31/03 16:55.26 < Bahhumbug> I would strongly encourage anyone to learn a skill. And currently that means learning how to use your hands for something other than punching keys on a keyboard. 31/03 16:55.33 < Bahhumbug> everyone* 31/03 16:58.24 < TrevorH> someone's going to have to clear the AI mess up after it's finished 31/03 16:59.34 < Bahhumbug> Hands. Fire, axes, torches.... 31/03 19:43.19 <- Aedil ([email protected]) a quitté (Quit: leaving) 31/03 20:03.29 < TommyC> Don't work on tanks and armored vehicles. Messes up your hands really bad. 31/03 20:21.10 < Bahhumbug> You'd be surprised just how well fire works against armor that has people inside it. Or electronics. Or things that go *boom*. 31/03 20:21.54 < Bahhumbug> Tanks and other armor on their own are just moving targets. No infantry or close air support == no armor in a pretty quick hurry. 31/03 20:22.26 < Bahhumbug> Also flame throwers have gotten a lot better for some silly reason. 31/03 20:48.08 -> pgreco_ (~pgreco@rockylinux/releng/pgreco) a rejoint #el-community 31/03 20:49.31 <- pgreco (~pgreco@rockylinux/releng/pgreco) a quitté (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 31/03 22:19.33 < Reinhilde> LLMs are not useful for quality assurance 31/03 22:20.12 < Reinhilde> wow. libera staff is embracing the slop machine. cor. 31/03 22:36.19 <- areguera (~areguera@centos/sig-artwork/areguera) a quitté (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 31/03 22:43.07 -> areguera (~areguera@centos/sig-artwork/areguera) a rejoint #el-community 31/03 23:17.00 < Bahhumbug> ... There have been no messages since those three dots. Anything I could say would be escalatory. #lang_en #LiberaMigration