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

[Andres Valloud]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

On 6/18/23 6:44 AM, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 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