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Quite a few folks - a couple credible developers - trying to convince me that 'AI' code generation is great. They fail to realise that my issue isn't whether it's good at writing working (or 'pretty') code. It could be both (it isn't) but that misses my concern: to me conferring power to those without the understanding to the implications of different uses of that power creates a system inevitably prone to disaster - whether smallish now or colossal later. Another contemporaneous example: 1/2
... is the fact that a sugared up, insecure, intellectually compromised toddle currently holds the 'keys' to the US military, and no one's willing to be the grown up in the room.
I think they're very closely related problems of our times. That's why I believe in 'paying ones dues' when developing credibility in an art or craft.
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The big (perhaps unheralded) selling point of 'AI' code generation, that it allows developers who *don't know what they're doing* to write working code. At least at one point in time. Yeah, it's mostly sold for 'experienced' developers to take away a lot of the 'grunt' work... But we all know that muscles we don't use for a long time atrophy and grow weak. I think Big 'A''s plan is to dumb down existing experts so they're dependent on their services & will pay massive amounts eventually.
@lightweight Also the LLMs aren't able to think. The output of stolen code that isn't documented as an exact solution for the stated development problem is at best only going to get the developer close to a solution and at worst is going to point away from the correct solution.
I hate using the term, "AI", because there is no intelligence. It's error prone copy and paste automation without attribution. A new religion that wants us to ignore science.
#DumbAllOver
