Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?

small44@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is an enormous difference between:

  rm -rf / path/file

  vs.

  rm -rf /path/file

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Many lazy programmers may just copy paste without thinking too much about the quality of generated code

  Tbf, they’ve been doing that LONG before AI came along

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sure, but if you’re copying from stack overflow or reddit and ignore the dozens of comments telling you why the code you’re copying is wrong for your use case, that’s on you.

    An LLM on the other hand will confidently tell you that its garbage is perfect and will do exactly what you asked for, and leave you to figure out why it doesn’t by yourself, without any context.

    An inexperienced programmer who’s willing to learn won’t fall for the first case and will actually learn from the comments and alternative answers, but will be completely lost if the hallucinating LLM is all they’ve got.

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