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No no, in comparison to academia, programmers have been extremely diligent at documenting exactly how stuff works and providing fairly reproducible artifacts since the 1960s.

Imagine trying to teach an AI how to code based on only slide decks from consultants. No access todocumentation, no stack overflow, no open source code used in the training data; just sales pitches and success stories. That's close to how absurd this idea is.