AI Code suggestions will guide you to making less secure code, not to mention often being lower quality in other ways.
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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
- AI Code suggestions will guide you to making less secure code, not to mention often being lower quality in other ways.
- AI code is designed to look like it fits, not be correct. Sometimes it is correct. Sometimes it’s close but has small errors. Sometimes it looks right but is significantly wrong. Personally I’ve never gotten ChatGPT to write code without significant errors for more than trivially small test cases.
- You aren’t learning as much when you have ChatGPT do it for you, and what you do learn is “this is what chat gpt did and it worked last time” and not “this is what the problem is and last time this is the solution I came up with and this is why that worked”. In the second case you are far better equipped to tackle future problems, which won’t be exactly the same.
All that being said, I do think there is a place for chat GPT in simple queries like asking about syntax for a language you don’t know. But take every answer it gives you with a grain of salt. And if you can find documentation I’d trust that a lot more.
erenkoylu@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
skoell13@feddit.org 3 months ago
All that being said, I do think there is a place for chat GPT in simple queries like asking about syntax for a language you don’t know.
I am also weary regarding AI and coding but this is actually the first time I used ChatGpt to programm something for a small home project in python, since I never used it. I was positively surprised in how much it could help me getting started. I also learned quite a bit since I always asked for comparison with Java, which I know, and for reasonings why it is that way. I simply also wanted to understand what it puts out. I also only asked for single lines of code rather than generating a whole method, e.g. I want to move a file from X to Y.
The thought of people blindly copying the produced code scares me.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Yes, I completely forget how to solve that problem 5 minutes after chatGPT writes its solution. So I whole heartedely believe AI is bad for learning