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Having a vague, conceptual understanding of a topic is often confused with expertise. Also known as knowing enough to be dangerous. What worries me is that AI
by huygens6363 2y ago
Having a vague, conceptual understanding of a topic is often confused with expertise. Also known as knowing enough to be dangerous.
What worries me is that AI code is getting complicated and harder to correct. I recently noticed that after my IDE generated some code I felt a palpable sense of dread.
I often have to go over it in detail because it makes subtle, hard to catch errors. It pulls me out of my flow. I am starting to dislike that effect and I am certain huge swaths of the (new) coding population will lack the skill and motivation to correct these things (as various earlier comments here show).
Power tools don’t make you a master carpenter.
- al_borland 2y agoThis same issue existed with Stack Overflow, but AI further lowers the barrier to be dangerous by throwing a brick on the gas pedal. I’ve also found it makes otherwise knowledgeable and experienced people think they can do stuff without learning it. I’ve had several people on my team tell me they think Copilot will help them get up to speed and help out with some of the stuff I’m working on. So far none of them have done anything and I’m not sure how Copilot explaining a block of code is going to do anything for them. It’s already a very easy syntax to read, and they all already have coding experience in other languages. It’s a tool to let them think helping will be easy, so they volunteer, then do nothing because it isn’t the reality of the situation.