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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I use LLM-type AI every day as a software developer. It's incredibly helpful in many contexts, but you have to understand what it's designed to do and what its limitations are.

I went back and forth with Claude and ChatGPT today about its logic being incorrect and it telling me "You're right," then outputting the same/similar erroneous code it output before, until I needed to just slow down and fix some fundamental issues with its output myself. It’s certainly a force multiplier, but not at any kind of scale without guidance.

I'm not convinced AI, in its current incarnation, can be used to write code at a reasonable scale without human intervention. Though I hope we get there so I can retire.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (9 children)

so I can retire.

So you can become homeless you mean :p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No, everyone knows we're gonna do gardening or woodworking or something like that when we stop our programming career. Main thing is: something that's as far as possible from a computer.

[–] lemmeBe 1 points 1 week ago

Was wondering what garden leave is. 😁

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