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If your C code just pseudo-randomly ran the wrong code, gave the wrong results, would you be happy with it? Would having to write half a dozen programs to cross
by codingdave 10mo ago
If your C code just pseudo-randomly ran the wrong code, gave the wrong results, would you be happy with it? Would having to write half a dozen programs to cross-check each others work to make C efficient? What if you could not write C from scratch and only could hire interns to go find and copy/paste pre-existing C code?
Yes, absolutely, AI is a tool. But it has some serious weaknesses and anyone who isn't educated and open about those weaknesses is going to apply the tool in the wrong places.
- keepamovin 10mo agoExactly! You got to know what you're doing.. Everyone is acting as if it will "replace us all". Insecure and desparate/defensive. However, AI will go quite wrong unless you do some snow-shoveling/entropy-reduction, too. You need a plan. So plan it, otherwise it will go wrong. In the next 30 years, more code than has ever been written in history will be written. By AI. But that doesn't make CS less important - it makes it more important! Especially if we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past and exponentially grow the bug-space, we are going to need new approaches. But AI is an inesacapable tool. You can continue to hand-scribe everything, but in a way, that will be alike to continuing to hand scripe codices after the Gutenberg moment permitted you to just typeset and mass press them. You can choose that path, out of a hermetic stubborness or puritan zeal, but your imapct will be, necessarily, limited. Embrace the scale. It's the only way. I think.