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  1. CW: Libera staffer Bahhumbug endorsing Red Hat's pivot to AI by saying that AI is very good at quality assurance.
    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