Why would there be? There isn't a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry.

Especially given that you can only be prosecuted for a crime after you've actually committed it.

Yeah, I get the impression that this is a clickbait "hey you know that thing that's kind of annoying/problematic/whatever? Well now AI can do it too!" Sort of news story.

AI didn't "reinvent" sending large amounts of unsolicited email. It was never deinvented in the first place.

...you just did.

This article is from yesterday. How many elections have there been since then?

Girls can totally be dudes or bros. It's a state of mind.

Anyone who manages to lose an election to Donald J. Trump should in a rational world never show their face in politics ever again.

Heck, I've been using them to untangle years worth of me working on codebases. I've got a lot of random little scripts and "applications" and whatnot that I threw together to perform various tasks on my home computer over the years and most of them were extremely sloppy because "who cares, this is just for me and just for this one weird thing I need to do." I've been pointing my AI agent at these things and telling it to clean them up. I'm hoping this isn't putting me a lot higher on Skynet's naughty list when the time comes for the robots to punish all those who have been mean to them.

I wasn't great at exams, but I think if I re-did university today I'd still do much better because my personal learning style is best when I talk through the material with someone. Sitting in a lecture listening to someone monologue at me, reading a static textbook, those weren't great. But with LLMs every student now has full-time access to a "live tutor" with infinite patience and no sense of social risk from asking it dumb questions. It's absolutely my perfect learning environment.

Progressive and socialist platforms are very popular, in hindsight. It's just that propaganda can make people who rely on, say, the ACA vote against "Obamacare".

In two sentences you first tell me that a thing is popular, and then explain why that thing is not actually popular.

People fall for propaganda. Evidently Democrats haven't been very good at countering it, and they really need to win some elections soon. So if countering the propaganda isn't working they may have to live with it. Doing the "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the voters who are wrong." Simpsons meme thing isn't going to work.

If the Democrats want to win elections they're going to have to appeal to enough American voters.

Unfortunately, a lot of American voters are pretty regressive in this way. So now Democrats face the question: compromise a few principles for the sake of their other principles actually getting implemented, or take the high ground and lose. Thus sacrificing all of those principles.

Never a fun place to be in, but that's democracy.

To be serious for a moment here on programmer_humor, yeah, it's a real puzzler. For now there's still a role for programmers like us in all this because we're still good at knowing how to translate the requirements of non-technical people into the things we actually ask the coding agents to build for us. But AI's getting good at that too. As might be expected, they're language models so interpreting what people tell them using language is kind of their jam.

If I were advising someone who's looking at whether to get into programming as a profession right now, I'd tell them to only go that route if they had the resources to take a mulligan on their education and try something else if a couple of years from now it turns out that the robots have completely taken the job over. I think it's a real possibility, and will lead to some interesting times indeed.

Until then, I guess we keep making jokes about it? Just make sure not to take them too seriously. AIs can count how many Rs are in "strawberry" now. They can whip up a bit of Javascript to do it for them in their harness' sandbox.