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Agreed that it is a slippery slope. Programming is understanding - like writing or teaching is understanding. To really understand something, we must construct
by discreteevent 4y ago
Agreed that it is a slippery slope. Programming is understanding - like writing or teaching is understanding. To really understand something, we must construct it ourselves. We will be inclined to skip this step. This comment sums it up well:
> Salgat 8 days ago
> The problem with ML is that it's pattern recognition, it's an approximation. Code is absolute, it's logic that is interpreted very literally and very exactly. This is what makes it so dangerous for coding; it creates code that's convincing to humans but with deviations that allow for all sorts of bugs. And the worst part is, since you didn't write the code, you may not have the skills (or time) to figure out if those bugs exist
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140585
- MetaWhirledPeas 4y ago> To really understand something, we must construct it ourselves. I think the real power of these bots will be to lead us down this path, as opposed to it doing everything for us. We can ask it to justify and explain its solution and it will do its best. If we're judicious with this we can use it to build our own understanding and just trash the AI's output.