They’ve been unprofitable for years. This move will probably push them into the black next year. Every company is using AI as an excuse for layoffs when it’s just over hiring.

This is exactly what they’re doing. Buy some goodwill. Continue turning up the temperature in a few months. They think they can boil the frog eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Round

This is the one I was thinking but drunken master fits as well!

There’s a movie about that. It’s pretty good

I recently vibed a project just to get a sense of where things are. One interesting take away was that everything the LLM wrote was basically a proof of concept, an example, a snippet.

I think this is probably a result of scraping stack overflow and other help sites. I doubt that this will really be resolved. The leak of Claude code shows that the industry leaders best approach to code quality and consistency is to beg the model to do the right thing.