Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhy are you typing so much in the first place?
Software development for me is not a term paper. I once encountered a piece of software in industry that was maintaining what would be a database in any sane piece of software using a hashmap and thousands of lines of code.
AI makes software like this easier to write without your eyes glazing over, but it’s been my career mission to stop people from writing this type of software in the first place.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol, it couldn’t determine the right amount of letters in the word strawberry using its training before. I’m not criticizing the training data. I’m criticizing a tool and its output.
It’s amusing to me that at first it’s “don’t blame the tool when it’s misused” and now it’s “the tool is smarter than any individual dev”. So which is it? Is it impossible to misuse this tool because it’s standing atop the shoulders of giants? Or is it something that has to be used with care and discretion and whose bad outputs can be blamed upon the individual coders who use it poorly?