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This is bad advice for anything serious that can be subtly wrong. I’ve had Fable being consequentially wrong about what a certain, rather small, code block does
by geraneum 8d ago
This is bad advice for anything serious that can be subtly wrong. I’ve had Fable being consequentially wrong about what a certain, rather small, code block does in our codebase. Not even on something very complex which wasted a lot of time and effort from the team until we checked the code ourselves. I think these tools are still useful and one should learn to use them but blind trust for anything of importance is misguided IMO.
- dist-epoch 8d agoTo paraphrase, "if a junior programmer doesn't understand what your code does, it's bad". If Fable doesn't understand, well...
- geraneum 8d agoDid you just paraphrase yourself in quotation marks?
- simonw 8d agoYou don't blind trust them in the fact checking. You check what they point out.
- nozzlegear 6d agoFact check the fact checker!
- black_knight 7d agoI use Fable to give me feedback on things I write. But I discard about 50%, because it often does not have the context and thus tends to favour hedging stuff. Also, it does not always vibe with my writing style. But the 50% I do take into account, improves the text! And, like TFA, I never ask it for concrete text. It only helps me diagnose the issues, I prescribe the medicine!