re: Google Says 75% of Fresh Code Now Generated by AI

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I have a master's in CS

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You should get a refund then.

I have ...quite... a bit of experience in coding and debugging (ASM, C, C++, .Net languages) and find AI is almost completely useless. First off, it is not really "AI" - it is an LLM and if you don't understand the difference, you shouldn't be discussing it's value. LLMs are just data analytics at scale, where everything relies on correctly tagging data with the appropriate metadata. This is why these "AI" tools do not and cannot ever create anything new; they are just statistic based data retrieval of already existing possible solutions to your query.

Doing a small project that AI gives you an answer for? That's because there already is a project that does that - you just haven't searched for it. Large project with new challenges to be resolved? Have fun debugging the nonsense code or calls to APIs that don't exist (that of course would actually implement the challenging code you were asking it to write in the first place).

People championing "AI" are just people that ether invested in it or never knew how to code to begin with - ya know, the guys who'd download a github repro, change some text, build, and say they 'wrote their own app' on a resume (then crack like an egg when I ask them to write a line of code on the board in an interview).

Yeah, but it’s improving faster and faster. It’s not good enough today but they are throwing trillions of dollars at it. My bet is it’s gonna happen.

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It saves time summarizing, it might catch grammar mistakes, and it can tell you where to look to find something. It's absolute shite at creating. Even web design, it's just not good. You can see when AI has created logos or put together a marketing campaign. It can't tell you accounting standards with any sort of accuracy. It gives a vague idea, but usually it's just flat out wrong.

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Not all AI is chatGPT.

Professional AI models are much more advanced.