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To be fair, intelligence isn't found in anything marketed as "AI". This one being a scam using humans, actually featured intelligence.

Second line points out addiction, then goes on to ask why? That's a special kind of stupidity on its own.

Great whites have the cuter smiles.

They're already conveniently lining themselves up against a wall. All that's missing is one actual patriot doing what needs to be done.

Fair enough. There might be some niche use cases where the results might be acceptable. But with everything I've seen I don't trust "AI" with anything.

No, that should be a parameterized script (/unit test/function/what ever, just picking up your example). If you have a repeating pattern with slight changes "AI" can generate more of that (to some degree), but it cannot fix the code duplication. Every line of code written is a line of code that has to be maintained.

It's actually one of the things copilot gets advertised for: see how great copilot can generate more of these repetitive unit tests? Yah, great, write more garbage faster. People need to know about test theories (parameterized tests) and think about what they're doing.

So you copy your script 10 times with minor changes (or let copilot & co do it) and notice there's some flaw in the script you started with; now you have to change 11 scripts - great.

The entire article is based on the flawed premise, that "AI" would improve the performance of developers. From my daily observation the only people increasing their throughput with "AI" are inexperienced and/or bad developers. So, create terrible code faster with "AI". Suggestions by copilot are >95% garbage (even for trivial stuff) just slowing me down in writing proper code (obviously I disabled it precisely for that reason). And I spend more time on PRs to filter out the "AI" garbage inserted by juniors and idiots. "AI" is killing the productivity of the best developers even if they don't use it themselves, decreases code quality leading to more bugs (more time wasted) and reducing maintainability (more time wasted). At this point I assume ignorance and incompetence of everybody talking about benefits of "AI" for software development. Oh, you have 15 years of experience in the field and "AI" has improved your workflow? You sucked at what you've been doing for 15 years and "AI" increases the damage you are doing which later has to be fixed by people who are more competent.

I like to style visited links blue and unvisited links purple, just to mess with people.

... from the perspective of a great white.

Then again, there's not much point to super long passwords. They'll be turned into hashes, commonly of 128, 196, or 256 bits length. When brute forcing, by a certain length, it's pretty much guaranteed there's a shorter combination computing to the same hash. And an attacker doesn't need your password, just some password that computes to the same hash. With 256 bit hashes a password with 1000 characters isn't more secure than one with 15 in any meaningful way.

Don't be unkind to potatoes.

I wonder ... does a Kash Patel ever stop and wonder whether the downward spiral into racist fascism he's enabling will eat him or "his kin". Does he ever look at his senior yearbook quote "Racism is man’s gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason" (by Abraham Joshua Heschel), take a look around and think: what the fuck am I doing here?

I wonder ...