Their downfall is actually precisely the opposite, they are so afraid of appearing like fascists that they dragged out the decision about banning of this fascist party until it was too late and never even considered banning the media that makes up pretend problems like immigration when in reality we are fucked without immigration due to our age distribution here.
We understand people can be brainwashed/emotionally and mentally manipulated to unbelievable extremes - watch any of the hundreds of cult documentaries that have come out over the last decade.
Steven Hassan's BITE model is a good start for that kind of information, the interesting thing being that a lot of those cult-manipulation techniques are visible in anything from individual relationships (not just romantic ones either, parent/child in either direction, "friends",...) over cults and religions to workplaces and political movements.
From what I’ve seen in my life, you will always be proven wrong if you stereotype anything about any perceived group of people.
Not always but the exceptions (or as close to exceptions as generalizations can ever get you anyway) are usually cases where the stereotypical behavior is entangled deeply with the very definition of the group, e.g. the vast majority of kids of rich parents can't understand the struggles of being poor.
On political topics it is very likely that we just gain a few hundred more repetitions of the same arguments that were already going in circles before.
I wouldn't but only because there are already too many of them and they take up too much space...on the other hand if they could be pasted and then deleted again after use that might have some applications.
Well, okay, I can see how it would be useful in languages like Java that are extremely verbose and have a low expressiveness. Writing Java pretty much was already IDEs with code generation 20 years or so ago because nobody wants to write so much boilerplate by hand.
I wouldn't say that Germany learned "all the wrong lessons", there was probably more of an effort to critically examine history in Germany than in most other countries who still revere the times when their own atrocities happened.
However, Germany did two things wrong, they learned an overly specific lesson "never again should Germans do something this horrible to Jews" rather than "never again should any group or individual do something this horrible to any other group or individual" and the emphasis was also often more on remembrance rather than examining how it started and how we can prevent the same thing from happening again.
Meanwhile most other countries seems to have skipped even that little bit of effort and gone with the comforting "look how evil Germans are, this could happen in our country of good people (TM)".
I would say better effort than most countries but still not enough to push it all the way through to the lesson all of humanity needed to learn.
In my experience people like that don't read international news at all. They only read a highly editorialized view of national news too (e.g. BILD and similar "news"papers or the equivalents online).
Reading code is usually orders of magnitude slower than writing code. Sure, typing might be slower than reading but to check if it is what you intended you have to understand it too.
It is exactly the opposite, with simple, predictable auto-complete you didn't have to worry about that anymore, with LLMs you always have to look at it in detail because every little thing could be just plain completely different and wrong.
I experimented with quite a few local LLMs too and granted, some perform a lot better than others, but they all have the same major issues. They don't get smarter, they just produce the same nonsense faster (or rather often it feels like they are just more verbose about the same nonsense).
Even 20% of new code would be a stretch unless they count every first iteration of code written by AI that needs to be replaced by a human later because it was plain wrong.
That is the thing, they are not "only going to get better" because the training has hit a wall and the compute used will have to be reduced since they are losing money with every request currently.
The problem isn't the dependencies, the problem is dependencies written by people who only put the minimum effort into writing the dependency for their own use case because their manager was breathing down their neck.
To be fair for a gish gallop style of bad faith argument the way religious people like to use LLMs are probably a good match. If all you want is a high number of arguments it is probably easy to produce those with an LLM. Not to mention that most of their arguments have been repeated countless times anyway so the training data probably has them in large numbers. It is not as if they ever cared if their arguments were any good anyway.
Their downfall is actually precisely the opposite, they are so afraid of appearing like fascists that they dragged out the decision about banning of this fascist party until it was too late and never even considered banning the media that makes up pretend problems like immigration when in reality we are fucked without immigration due to our age distribution here.