

This is not new knowledge and predates the current LLM fad.
See the Hutter prize which has had “machine learning” based compressors leading the ranking for some time: http://prize.hutter1.net/
It’s important to note when applied to compressors, the model does produce a code (aka encoding) that exactly reproduces the input. But on a different input the same model is unlikely to produce an impressive compression.





Visual Studio has these issues daily.
Ten years ago VS was awesome. In the last 2 years, all they added is AI crap and every other feature got more buggy.