As I’ve said in an earlier thread, AI over engineers code and hallucinates APIs that don’t exist. Furthermore, hallucinations themselves are a very well studied phenomenon that has proven difficult to combat. People have very legit compliments about AI that you seem to be determined to dismiss as nothing more than a culture war.
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aksdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe culture war part is the call to boycott a project or shit on its author because they use coding agents, as is done throughout these comments. The whole separation into “those who use AI are bad” and “those who hate AI are good” is a culture war. A needless one at that.
tonytins@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
And why is that a problem?
Google searches also usually generate mostly useless results, which is impossible to combat. Thankfully the person doing the search knows what they are looking for, can try different solutions, and learn from multiple results to get to a working solution.
Why do you consider AI different? Nobody is expecting it always give correct solutions, just like nobody is expecting Googling something to always give the correct solution.
I’m not saying AI is useful, but I’m saying that a tool being fallible isn’t inherently a problem, whatever the tool is. As long as the user knows it’s fallible.
aksdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But those issues get determined by reviews and tests. You determined these issues and worked against them, why do you think the author of Lutris is not able to? Neither I nor the author says anyone should use AI produced results as is (i.e vibe code).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Is flat vs. round Earth a culture war in your mind?
aksdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The way flat earthers act? Yes. They treat it as a culture war. Just like anti-vaxers.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TIL fact-based opinions and the arguments that come from them are “culture wars”.
aksdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I also brought facts and objective reasoning, yet I get downvoted. That’s not polarization to you?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s for sure a polarizing topic, I just don’t see how it’s a culture war. “Sub-culture war” maybe?
aksdb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ok maybe I mis-use the word. If that’s the case, sorry about that. But I hope my point comes across anyway: I really really dislike that the community (or multiple communities, even) get split between people who are ok with AI and who are against AI. This is, IMO, completely unnecessary. That doesn’t mean everyone should be ok with it, but we should not judge or condemn each other because of a different opinion on the matter.
If you notice a project goes downhill, it’s fine to criticize the author (or the whole project) for the degredation in quality. If there are strong indicators that AI is involved, by all means leave a snarky remark about that while complaining. But ultimately it’s the fuckup of a human.