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I doubt AI is making anyone lazier and less worried about code quality, if they weren't already.
by gtirloni 3y ago
I doubt AI is making anyone lazier and less worried about code quality, if they weren't already.
- cjbgkagh 3y agoPeople can learn things even if they would rather not. Allowing them to take shortcuts will diminish their learning opportunities.
- flir 3y agoI'm not ashamed to admit I'm learning a lot from the chatbots. And it seems to stick better, as compared to reading a manual.
- gtirloni 3y agoSame here. Instead of me conforming my thoughts to some document, the chatbot works together with me and my questions. I find them very useful form learning, so much I usually start a learning session first before I ever try to search something on Google. Back to code solutions, I never ever use them if I don't understand ALL that is happening in that code. I know the bot will ignore many corner cases or that it doesn't know some subtle implications about the context where I'll deploy the code. I think someone that doesn't care about code quality was already copying and pasting code from StackOverflow and fisting the keyboard until it works then moving to the next ticket. I really don't think AI is making things worse in that regard.
- fhd2 3y agoMaybe lazy is the wrong term, but less attentive apparently. There was the Ironies of Automation paper about this: https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...
- mpweiher 3y agoIt lets you get away with being lazier. At least superficially.