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MY annoyance is when AI is used instead of better machines. I just logged onto github and saw a "My open pull requests button". Instead of taking me to a page
by eterm 1y ago
MY annoyance is when AI is used instead of better machines.
I just logged onto github and saw a "My open pull requests button".
Instead of taking me to a page which quickly queried a database, it opened a conversation with copilot which then slowly thought about how to work out my open pull requests.
I closed the window before it had an answer.
Why are we replacing actual engineering with expensive guesswork?
- federiconafria 1y agoI don't think that's an AI problem, we've had unnecessary software everywhere for a while now. AI just makes it worse.
- eterm 1y agoIn this case the featre isn't unnecessary and would serve a useful purpose if it were just a query. I wouldn't object to AI writing that feature to get it out quickly. I'm not anti-AI entirely. However, someone has taken a useful feature and has made it worse to shoe-horn in copilot interaction. Clicking this button also had a side-effect of an email from Github telling me about all the things I could ask copilot about. The silver lining is that email linked to copilot settings, where I could turn it off entirely. https://github.com/settings/copilot/features https://github.com/settings/copilot/features AI is incredibly powerful, especially for code-generation. But It's terrible ( at current speeds ) for being the main interface into an application. Human-Computer interaction benefits hugely from two things: - Speed - Predictability This is why some people prefer a commandline, and why some people can produce what looks like magic with excel. These applications are predictable and fast. A chat-bot delivers neither. There's no opportunity to build up muscle-memory with a lack of predictability, and the slowness of copilot makes interaction just feel bad.