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Junior Dev VS Machine Learning (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (17 children)

the comic is about using a machine learning algorithm instead of a hand-coded algorithm. not about using chatGPT to write a trivial program that no doubt exists a thousand times in the data it was trained on.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (14 children)

The strengths of Machine Learning are in the extremely complex programs.

Programs no junior dev would be able to accomplish.

So if the post can misrepresent the issue, then the commenter can do so too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I strongly disagree. ML is perfect for small bullshit like "What's the area of a rectangle" - it falls on its face when asked:

Can we build a website for our security paranoid client that wants the server to completely refuse to communicate with users that aren't authenticated as being employees... Oh, and our CEO requested a password recovery option on the login prompt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I got interested and asked ChatGPT. It gave a middle-management answer.
Guess we know who'll be the first to go.

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