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I mentor a high school robotics team and they use copilot for Java coding and on occasion I’ve seen them write code that just kinda breaks the robot and then th

I mentor a high school robotics team and they use copilot for Java coding and on occasion I’ve seen them write code that just kinda breaks the robot and then they’re totally lost for a while. But I can assure you, the alternative is there being no coding team and maybe no robotics team at all. I think that maybe I’d say: it’s good that AI isn’t good enough to never break the robot. That’s when they’re learning a lot about coding and debugging.

UncleEntity 2y ago
> ...write code that just kinda breaks the robot and then they’re totally lost for a while. Um, yeah, that's how I roll. Try something, it doesn't work, debug for a while and maybe I can get it to work? My favorite example was I was trying to get the python buffer protocol working for images in blender. I read the docs, wrote some code which didn't work, started debugging for a long while and, finally, after I went digging into python's repo I found out it wasn't even fully implemented. Needless to say I was less than happy they would let a half-baked feature into a release. I can say the current batch of 'thinking' AIs are pretty good at debugging once you get them pointed in the right direction.