• fubarx@lemmy.world
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    I’ve always appreciated the feature of AI coding tools, where they confidently tell you they’ve done something completely wrong. Then if you call them on it, they super-confidently say: “Of course, here’s what needs to be done…”

    Then proceed to do something even worse.

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        Yes. I love the confidently incorrect additional comments explaining in detail how the incorrect code works.

        Though I’m usually pretty angry at that point, it is also pretty funny.

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          ChatGPT would not let me call it “you doofus” when I point outed it had done that repeatedly. For “policy violations”.

          Edit: I don’t know how I screw uped that wording, but I’m leaving it.

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        Yes, that’s the joke.

        AI creates almost (but not) good enough stuff really fast. And occasionally straight up hallucinates stuff that is meaningless or worse.

        So this person has a huge stack of functional but broken crap, and it’s blaming X for their woes.

        There’s an old saying that goes roughly “It takes four times the experience to maintain a program as it took to write it. So anyone writing the most clever program they can think of is, by definition, not competent to maintain it.”

        In this case, it’s extra funny, because neither the AI nor the AI user has the faintest idea how the generated code works. So maintaining it is almost certainly 1000% outside their abilities.

        So they’ve paid an AI for the privilege unpleasant daily panic of learning everything they need to learn after the app has gone to production, rather than before.

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          It certainly isn’t good at security, which is what it sounds like his biggest problem is.