<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> the hype with this chatGPT is huge. bye Nicola <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/18/23 15:44, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:10212925921821f4be0613c03a4b0b58@whidbey.com">Interesting observation from the article <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/06/17/1934235/is-ai-an-excuse-for-not-learning-to-code">https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/06/17/1934235/is-ai-an-excuse-for-not-learning-to-code</a> "It doesn't work." I would love to have an assistant who keeps me in check, alerting me to pitfalls and correcting me when I err. A effective pair-programmer. But that is not what I get. Instead, I have the equivalent of a cocky graduate student, smart and widely read, also polite and quick to apologize, but thoroughly, invariably, sloppy and unreliable. I have little use for such supposed help... Fascinating as they are, AI assistants are not works of logic; they are works of words. Large language models: smooth talkers (like the ones who got all the dates in high school). They have become incredibly good at producing text that looks right. For many applications that is enough. Not for programming. Caveat Programmer, -KenD </blockquote> </body> </html>