Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 1 week agoThat’s fair, but I’m not arguing that it’s a higher-level language. I was trying to illustrate that it’s just to help people code more easily - as all of the other steps were.
If you asked ten programmers to turn a given set of instructions into code, you’d end up with ten different blocks of code. That’s the nature of turning English into code.
The difference is that this is a tool that does it, not a person. You write things in English, it produces code.
FWIW, I enjoy using hex-editors to tinker around with Super Famicom ROMs in my free time - I’m certainly not anti-coding. As OP said, AI is now pretty good at generating code - it’s daft not to use it as a tool.
theparadox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think it’s at the point where it helps people code more easily, but maybe I’m just exclusively experiencing edge cases and turning to it for the wrong uses. I’ve only had failures. Hallucinations that waste my time, and flawed algorithms.
My favorite was a few weeks ago when I was having a rough day and needed a complicated algorithm to make a decision based on an inputted date. I told it that if I plug in value A to its algorithm, the answer is wrong. It went step by step explaining its "reasoning"and it returned the correct answer and then at the pivotal step it plugged in a different year than was in A, for just that step, and then proceeded to confirm to itself that if you plug in A, you get the right answer.
Maybe someday it will help, or maybe some problems it is useful for, I’ve just never had that experience.