Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• August27th@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.

  Hey, look at the bright side, as long as you were chained to your desk instead, that’s all that matters.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  At one point I tried to use a local model to generate something for me. It was full of errors, but after some searching online to look for a library or existing examples I found a github repo that was almost an exact copy of what it generated. The comments were the same, and the code was mostly the same, except this version wasn’t fucked up.

  It turns out text prediction isn’t that great at understanding the logic of code. It’s only good at copying existing code, but it doesn’t understand why it works, so the predictive model fucks things up when it takes the less likely result. Maybe if you turn the temperature to only give the highest prediction it wouldn’t be horrible, but you might as well just search online and copy the code that it’s going to generate anyway.

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  • 7toed@midwest.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But… how else do we sell our tool as a super intelligent sentient do-it-all?

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• UncleMagpie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The bigger problem is that your skills are weakened a bit every time you use an assistant to write code.

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  • KneeTitts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The bigger problem is that your skills are weakened a bit every time you use an assistant to write code

    Not when you factor in that you are now doing code review for it and fixing all its mistakes…

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It depends how you’re using it. I use it for boilerplate code, for stubbing out classes and functions where I can tell it clearly what I want, for finding inconsistencies I might have missed, to advise me on poss, and as a supplement to the documentation when I can’t find what I’m looking for. I don’t use it for architecting new things, writing complex and specialized code, or as a replacement for documentation. I feel like I have it fairly well contained to what it does well, and it isn’t really eating away at my coding brain because I still do the tricky stuff.

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is exactly how it’s meant to be used. People who think it’s to be used for more than what you’ve described are not serious people.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There is no “meant to be used”. LLM were not created to solve a specific problem.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That is just dumb.

    Your skills are weakened even more by copying code from someone else. Because you have the use even less of your brain to complete your task.

    Yet you people don’t complain about that part at all and do it yourself all the time. For some it is even the preferred method of work.

    “Using your skills less means they get weaker, who would have thought!”

    With your logic, you shouldn’t use any form of help to code. Programmers should just lock themselves in a big black box until their project is finished, that will make sure their skills aren’t “weakened” by using outside help.

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    • UncleMagpie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No that’s not the same thing. It’s the difference between looking up how to do something and having it done for you.

      There have been multiple articles recently that show AI weakens skills.

      forbes.com/…/the-dark-side-of-ai-tracking-the-dec…

      Btw there’s no need to add strawman arguments with scenarios I didn’t mention.

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