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An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I. (www.nytimes.com)

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A radio station in Poland fired its on-air talent and brought in A.I.-generated presenters. An outcry over a purported chat with a Nobel laureate quickly ended that experiment.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have access to AI integrated with my IDE. It mostly guesses at the line I'm going to write. It probably gets it right 50% of the time.

It also very, very often suggests stuff that works but isn't very good. Like it offered some convoluted suggested for adding audit fields to Firebase. Ultimately it did suggest the solution I went with, but only after starting down the road of stupid ideas.

Like, if your code base is pretty good and you just need to tweaks stuff that is already good enough that's one thing. I frequently look at the code base and wonder if it was implemented by someone who really knows Java at all.

I suppose it might be fair to assume a huge technology company would have their shit together, but technically I work for a huge tech company... just not the same core business. Tech enough that we have a whole mess of internal AI tooling to create AIs for specific things.

We can create an AI agent, but we can't follow simple fucking rest standards.

Anyway it's hard to quantify, but I get less mileage out of integrated AI tools than I do bouncing ideas off ChatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think that's fair.

I don't have AI integration in my ide, mostly by choice -if I pushed for it I could make it happen, but I just don't think that's a good idea at this point

AI can be a crutch . One that limits you to the level of a baby developer. If you can't effortlessly understand what it gives you, frankly you shouldn't be using it.

Bounce ideas of chat gpt. It sounds like you've got the right idea - your reaction sounds correct to me, you should never ever trust it... You must only use it, and that's the tone I get from your post.

It is a tool, you are a programmer. You exploit tools, you do not trust any tool. You are the one who turns ideas into actions, never forget that and you can use this new tool anywhere it makes your life easier