Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I find it’s the most useful when asking it for small snippets of code or dealing with boilerplate stuff. Anything more complicated usually results in something broken.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    give it a few more years

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    • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, like bitcoins, NFTs, and Tesla driving themselves.

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      • Llewellyn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Bitcoins are there, aren’t they?

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Given that even stack overflow is being mostly answered by AI, don’t expect that to actually get better, unless you’re counting on sensitive coding data being “legally” siphoned from AI users

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  yeah, there are many things its easier to just give up having the ai do it. even if you somehow succeed it will likely be such mess it gives you its not worth it

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    AI mostly seems useful when you don’t know a specific concept and just need the base ideas. That said, given it’s often confidently wrong and doesn’t involve humans actively steering you toward better ideas, I still find Stack Overflow more helpful. Sometimes the answer to your problem is to stop doing what you are trying to do and attack the problem from a different angle.

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    • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      yeah, though for questions people on stackoverflow would consider stupid or beneath them, ai was superior as it never gets angry with you. How i see the ai is kind of like being able to ask the knowledge it consists of questions. But since it has also been fed with garbage and its all there like ingredients of a soup, who knows what affects what so you really dont want to trust it too much.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I also find it is best when I’m very specific and give as many identifiers as possible. App name, version, OS, quoted error code, etc.

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