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I actually told my wife this exact analogy a couple of months ago and she told me to stfu nerd.
It's actually the biggest worry of mine, I opened a networking book a while back and there were pages upon pages of truncations.
In the event of like a solar flare we'd be astronomically screwed since all the people who knew how shit worked will be gone by then.
I've my paper copy of Andrew Tanenbaum's Distributed Systems just in case. Of course it's only a drop in the bucket and by many metrics decades out of date but it's something.
Light some incense and recite 3 hymns to the machine gods and your network will be fine
Making a bios that just runs an LLM to imitate a BIOS on which a different LLM pretending to be on operating system rests and is used to run other LLMs pretending to be programs. Debugging will just be asking it nicely to figure out what's wrong over and over until it looks like it's started working, and normal operation is remembering which phrasing of the question makes it work right-ish and which doesn't and being sure to praise it frequently because that makes it more likely to be correct (or else why would it be getting praised?).
It takes a supercomputer to run a command line interface and it can't render a spreadsheet, it has to write it on paper using a robotic hand controlled by an LLM designed to mimic handwriting.
Imagine 40K predicting the world MicroSlop wants to build decades ahead of time.
I thought all of this 40k stuff was hammy until you said "LLM pretending to be a program" and now I'm met with dread about how real that 40k concept of appeasing the machine spirits now seems. The machine spirit is an LLM.
Wives will do this and then wonder why we're playing Face Raiders on 3DS with their face on the propeller guys we shoot.
I mean I can't blame her for being cool