[Cuis-dev] Off Topic -- AI Programming NOT

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

Interesting observation from the article

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/06/17/1934235/is-ai-an-excuse-for-not-learning-to-code

"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