A friend of mine is getting into AI more than I am and seems to like doing random coding tasks to see what it can do. Like, coding a clock app in Window with NTP/PTP. Or coding a multi swarm agent that is so poorly designed it hurts my soul. I want to say the clock app came in at 300 Mb and god knows how much memory usage it was pulling. LLMs have all these different pieces but it still doesn't know the optimization that an engineer might know with experience. Because of the amount of slop being generated, we're essentially line workers that deal with automation being implemented in factories. Very much the the technology version of the 'American Factory' documentary on Netflix. Unless we're at the forefront of this SOTA hotness, we're behind in all aspects.