• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    ChatGPT is hilariously incompetent… but on a serious note, I still firmly reject tools like copilot outside demos and the like because they drastically reduce code quality for short term acceleration. That’s a terrible trade-off in terms of cost.

    • ToothlessFairy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I enjoy using copilot, but it is not made to think for you. It’s a better autocomplete, but don’t ever let it do more than a line at once.

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I predict that, within the year, AI will be doing 100% of the development work that isn’t total and utter bullshit pain-in-the-ass complexity, layered on obfuscations, composed of needlessly complex bullshit.

    That’s right, within a year, AI will be doing .001% of programming tasks.

      • starman2112@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Legitimately could be a use case

        “Attend this meeting for me. If anyone asks, claim that your camera and microphone aren’t working. After the meeting, condense the important information into one paragraph and email it to me.”

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 years ago

          Here is a summary of the most important information from that meeting. Since there were two major topics, I’ve separated them into two paragraphs.

          1. It is a good morning today.
          2. Everyone is thanked for their time. Richard is looking forward to next week’s meeting.

          The rest of the information was deemed irrelevant to you and your position.

  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Engineering is about trust. In all other and generally more formalized engineering disciplines, the actual job of an engineer is to provide confidence that something works. Software engineering may employ fewer people because the tools are better and make people much more productive, but until everyone else trusts the computer more, the job will exist.

    If the world trusts AI over engineers then the fact that you don’t have a job will be moot.