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An essay at hrih.si says AI follows FORTRAN's pattern, only faster: a METR trial found experienced developers 19% slower with AI while believing they were faster, and Faros AI data showed more pull requests but much longer reviews.

Commenters attack the analogy itself. One says compilers were first called "automatic coders"; another says a compiler maps input to output roughly 1:1, and an LLM does not.

IBM's new 'nanostack' stacks transistors vertically to claim 0.7nm, or '7 angstroms' — roughly twice the density of its 2021 2nm chip, with 50% more performance or 70% better efficiency.

But the number is marketing, not measurement: the smallest real features are around 5nm. As one engineer put it, the name scales better than the tech. And IBM has no production fabs — it paid GlobalFoundries $1.5B in 2014 to take them away.