The Future Is Bleak

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The Future Is Bleak

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Remember when we worried AI would take our jobs? Now we're watching LLMs trying to code by regurgitating increasingly stale StackOverflow answers from 2015. It's like watching your replacement get dumber in real time.

The top panel shows happy, innocent SpongeBob - that's our AI models in 2022-23, cheerfully scraping StackOverflow for all that juicy developer knowledge. The bottom panel is the grim reality waiting in 2024-25: depressed SpongeBob sitting in a dimly lit room with a thousand-yard stare, because there's no fresh data to learn from. Just the same old "marked as duplicate" answers from a decade ago.

Turns out training on yesterday's solutions doesn't prepare you for tomorrow's problems. Who knew?

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