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Re: The chat bots have come for groff users


From: John Gardner
Subject: Re: The chat bots have come for groff users
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:30:37 +1100

>
> Terminals support only four font names: R, I, B, and BI; the *grotty*(1)
> man page says more. Attempting to select any other font name will fail;
> like much else in Unix, *roff font names are case-sensitive. *groff*
> 1.23.0 started issuing diagnostics upon font selection failure in many more
> cases than earlier versions of *groff* did


I think I just had an aneurysm…

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 11:41, G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would appear that people have started running "AI" chat bots to
> answer questions on StackExchange.
>
> The quality of response is so impressive that I'm terrified for my
> future job prospects.  :-|
>
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/771162/grep-error-warning-cannot-select-font-i/771173#771173
>
> What do you get when you kick word salad up a level?  Concept salad?
>
> French poststructuralism?
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>


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