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Comment by lucianbr

14 days ago

The computer isn't saying anything. It does not think or have agency. It just replicates what people might say in a context. And people might say what you put in quotes, without it being hilariously inappropriate.

Of course if you tink of the computer as a person you get strange results. A compiler error isn't the compiler telling me anything. It's the compiler writer telling me something. So a compiler error might contain a joke, and the joke might make sense, although obviously computers and compilers don't have a sense of humour.