afeller08

4 ms·

1.
by afeller08 6y ago
>Even if humans make more mistakes than the AI, telling our customer it was a human error is much easier for our customers to accept than telling them it was a program error without our threshold tolerance. The veracity of this statement
2.
by afeller08 6y ago
This. This is strictly more accurate than the above comment. It has nothing to do with accuracy or the repetitiveness of the mistake. It has to do with managers preferring to make sure that they can somehow avoid being personally blamed for
3.
by afeller08 6y ago
Huh? In my experience, people who make a mistake tend to make the same mistake again and again. Whereas, when a machine makes that mistake, somebody fixes the bug and it doesn't happen again. If the machine can teach itself, then so mu
4.
by afeller08 6y ago
This. A huge amount of stuff can and should be automated by mundane programming. Since that hasn't been done yet, AI isn't about to automate all of the stuff that shouldn't be automated by mundane programming.
5.
by afeller08 6y ago
AI is useful for business, and it's used in business. Hiring people to do menial mental tasks that would be particularly easy to automate is cheap. Hiring programmers and AI developers to automate those tasks is expensive. I know peopl
6.
by afeller08 6y ago
Automated testing is a generically good technique for many things including forcing yourself to have a better API. Code sometimes has to be refactored to make it more testable, and this refactoring invariably implies a better API. Write aut
7.
by afeller08 6y ago
Writing code is fun, but being a software developer has been a depressing occupation for me at most of the places I've worked. I'm pretty sure it's because I dread the follow up work after the coding portion of each project i