To be fair.
You could’ve asked some of those coworkers the same thing 5 years ago.
All they would’ve mumbled was "Something , something…Stack overflow… Found a package that does everything BUT… "
I like to think there’s a bit of a difference between copying something from stackoverflow and not being able to read what you just pasted from stackoverflow.
Sure, you can be lazy and just paste something and trust that it works, but if someone asks you to read that code and know what it’s doing, you should be able to read it. Being able to read code is literally what you’re paid for.
The difference you’re talking about is making an attempt to understand versus blindly copying, not using AI versus stackoverflow
No, the AI was trained the same stack overflow posts as humans would manually search out in the past.
Thus the effective difference is precisely that between an active attempt to understand and blindly copying since the AI is specifically there to introduce a stochastic opaqueness between truth (i.e. sufficiently curated training data) and interpretation of truth.
no, gernally the package would still be better than whatever the junior did, or the AI does now
foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev 13 hours ago
yes, but it’s way more energy efficient to produce that garbage.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
is the garbage per hour higher though?
foenkyfjutschah@programming.dev 9 hours ago
don’t know, i do neither. but i think the time that users take for manual copying and adjusting from a quick web server’s response may level out the time an LLM takes.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I hate that argument.
It is even more energy efficient to write your code on paper. So we should stop using computers entirely. /s
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Are you aware of a little thing called the climate catastrophe that is unfolding as we speak?
Mniot@programming.dev 5 hours ago
We’re talking here about garbage code that we don’t want. If the choice is “let me commit bad code that causes problems or else I will quit using computers”… is this a dilemma for you?