Defensive Programming: The Best Software Development Methodology Ever Invented

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Slide claim that defensive programming is the best never becomes a methodology; instead the session demos ChatGPT and large language model behavior. Live examples show hallucinations (wrong sums, absurd recipe temps), flaky coding answers, and a hand‑built human fallback described as human typists behind terminals. Claims include a multi‑year build time and a Beta status with tangible latency (sometimes hours after lunch) and occasional crashes, so expect anecdotes and demos, not a repeatable process.

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1. 0:00Defensive programming intro
2. 1:09Why APIs and AI future
3. 3:27How LLMs work
4. 7:20ChatGPT funny examples
5. 14:10Q&A with ChatGPT
6. 22:31Closing remarks

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