@EmilyEnough "I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for." In the 1970s, yes, when you wrote every single byte of code in the machine and could watch every bus cycle on a logic analyser. I reckon the rot set in long before LLMs - I reckon it started with on-chip cache, so you could no longer see how each instruction operated through each clock cycle, because some instructions no longer needed to touch the bus at all.