Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSo much of the AI hype has been pointing to ten year old technology repackaged in a slick new interface.
AI is the iPod to the Zune of yesteryear.
Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSo much of the AI hype has been pointing to ten year old technology repackaged in a slick new interface.
AI is the iPod to the Zune of yesteryear.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Repackaging old technology in slick new interfaces is what we have been calling progress in computer software for 40+ years.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean… I like to think we’ve done a bit more than that. FFS, file compression alone has made leaps and bounds since the 3.25" floppy days.
Also, as a T-SQL guy, I gotta say there’s a world of difference between SQL 2008 and SQL 2022.
But I’ll spot you that a lot of the last 10-15 years has produced herculean efforts in answering the question “How can we squeeze a few more ads into your GUI?”
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
There have been a few “milestone moments” like map-reduce Hadoop, etc. Still, there’s a whole lot of eye candy wrapped around the same old basic concepts.