I’m inclined to agree. I mean, this case is a bit different, in that it’s a person that supposedly could have done this properly taking a bad shortcut. But still, don’t take shortcuts on money stuff. That’s kind of on you (and what you get for cryptobroing anyway).

That’s not to say it isn’t impressive how helpful machine generation can be for trivial tasks where there’s no security risk or a huge stack of dependencies. It’s not even a bad way to learn to do it yourself if you are at that point where you can sort of know what you need to do but struggle to implement it.

It’s weird to be in the agnostic region of this stuff because there’s a bunch of garbage applications being incorrectly used or implemented I’d happily discuss, but I’m not ready to make cultish hatred for machine generated content a significant part of my personality.

But hey, Google has managed to make its spellchecker unlearn the difference between “its” and “it’s”, I suspect by plugging it into a language model. I’m not here to say it’s all good.