The new safety features all break down under stress and make the tool as safe as the 1996 piece as soon as you put them in a dangerous environment.
Also, both the new and the 1996 pieces have hidden explosives that were placed there by the new tooling used to build them. Nobody will tell you where they are, you should know that already. Don't hit them.
You know that Mercantilism is the name of the policies the European countries had to trade with each other, right?
If you wanted to talk about overseas imperialism, also no, its first business was buying natural resources. Its second business was stealing natural resources. It only started trading people after there wasn't easy stuff to take away anymore.
It will generate bad tests, so you will have lots of tests blocking your work, but won't actually test the important properties.
Mass refactoring.
That's an amount of trust in the LLM capacity to not create hidden corner cases and your capacity to review large-scale changes that... I find your complete faith disturbing.
Yes, it's a solved problem. Just don't put clocks on ever damning single appliance.
Every appliance is built by the same local company that buys all the components (including firmware) from the same Chinese company.