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> and I've even seen unit tests > that mock the actual function > under test. Yup. Ai is so fickle it’ll do anything to accomplish the task. But ai is just a t
by psyclobe 10mo ago
> and I've even seen unit tests > that mock the actual function > under test.
Yup. Ai is so fickle it’ll do anything to accomplish the task.
But ai is just a tool it’s all about what you allow it to do. Can’t blame ai really.
- dpark 10mo agoIn fairness I’ve seen humans make that mistake. We had a complete outage in the testing of a product once and a couple of tests were still green. Turns it they tested nothing and never had.
- sirreal14 10mo ago> In fairness I’ve seen humans make that mistake These were (formerly) not the kinds of humans who regularly made these kinds of mistakes.
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- mehagar 10mo agoIf a tool makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, then it's not a good tool. See C++.
- jahsome 10mo agoI'm no apologist but this statement doesn't ring for me. It's easy to shock yourself with electricity, is it a bad tool?
- crabmusket 10mo agoElectricity isn't a tool, it's nature. An unenclosed electrical plug which you had to be really careful when handling would be a bad tool, yes. A tool is something designed by humans. We don't get to design electricity, but we do get to design the systems we put in place around it. Gravity isn't a tool, but stairs are, and there are good and bad stairs.
- Alex_L_Wood 10mo agoA knife then.
- jahsome 10mo agoAppreciate the perspective. Of course it's bad. It's new. But it won't always be either of those things. I think "bad" is relative assessment and based on a build-up of knowledge, often over decades. Electrical plugs and stairs are "good" only because that knowledge has been discovered and has been regulated. Expecting a tool to be literally and metaphorically fool-proof immediately upon discovery strikes me as pretty disingenuous. In the case of AI, the most anti-AI crowd are often vehement with their fingers in their ears saying "it's not good and never will be, and shouldn't exist." To be fair, the pro-AI crowd are often raving as if all the kinks had already been worked out.
- hudon 10mo agoA gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with
- mr_toad 10mo agoMost tools are dangerous in the hands of the inept or the careless. Don’t run with scissors.
- lbrito 10mo agoLeverage. Those slops already existed, but AI scales them by an order of magnitude. I guess the same can be said of any technology, but AI is just a more powerful tool overall. Using languages as an example - lets say duck typing allowed a 10% productivity boost, but also introduced 5% more mistakes/problems. AI (claims to) allow a 10x productivity boost, but also ~10x mistakes/problems.
- insane_dreamer 10mo agoI've had Claude try to pull the same trick on me just yesterday. It will also try to cheat and apply a "fix" that just masks the real problem.