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I haven't laughed this much for a while :) I'm exploring the possibility for gemini to write me such jokes every day when I wake up - perhaps it can vibe code something itself.
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> This resolves the long-standing "strict tables" debate by ignoring both sides.

This is brilliant. Well done.

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And

  It is now the only software in the world still written in C89.
Hilarious.
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But wait, there's more!

    > Predictive SELECT Statements:
    > Added the PRECOGNITION keyword.
    > SELECT * FROM sales WHERE date = 'tomorrow' now returns data with 99.4% accuracy by leveraging the built-in 4kB inference engine. The library size has increased by 12 bytes to accommodate this feature.
12 bytes really sounds like something that the lead dev would write!
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I may live to see it; peak sqlite.
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You are laughing. IBM has already been there, with DB2 having essentially been the OS on mainframes a few decades ago.
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All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
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So it's true, the profits have spoken of this!
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Omg the Bloomberg/IBM article has so many Easter eggs
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Here is the link: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90097654.html

The content spot on and very funny.

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Suddenly, I have high hopes again for LLMs. Imagine you were a TV/film script writer and had writer's block. You could talk to an LLM for a while to see what funny ideas it can suggest. It is one more tool in the arsenal.
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