I dunno. A shadow-ban normally is retroactive, but I actually don't know the policy on plain bans from most places. I know that here it would be a huge technical challenge to delete everything a user created, but lemmy is very different from most platforms.
You know that Mercantilism is the name of the policies the European countries had to trade with each other, right?
If you wanted to talk about overseas imperialism, also no, its first business was buying natural resources. Its second business was stealing natural resources. It only started trading people after there wasn't easy stuff to take away anymore.
And since it's banning people from posting new content, it would make sense to delete the old content too. Well, not on reddit devs minds, but it would be a perfectly coherent idea.
It will generate bad tests, so you will have lots of tests blocking your work, but won't actually test the important properties.
Mass refactoring.
That's an amount of trust in the LLM capacity to not create hidden corner cases and your capacity to review large-scale changes that... I find your complete faith disturbing.
It can only work up to a limiting frequency. It's probably in the visible spectrum or in near ultra-violet (that's how material go). But since it's a video, I won't go check it.
Yes, those things are really hard to park.