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The Last Bug on Earth Aug 3, 2026
Everyone is panicking that AI will bury us under incomprehensible bugs. Relax. The code is about to get so perfect there will be no bugs left at all, only the business cases nobody documented, or documented badly. The machine builds exactly what you ask for, which turns out to be the terrifying part.
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