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Submission + - Ask /. : For devs having AI write most their code, do bots know your domain?

Tablizer writes: A recent Slashdot poll showed roughly 15% said bots write most their code. I generally find bots don't and can't understand very specific domains in my experience, the rules often come from institutional habits and/or arbitrary-seeming gov't polices & regulations. So what are the bots doing for you exactly? If there are regular patterns they are milking, why can't those patterns be factored into modules & functions rather than repeated so that you are mostly passing simple parameters. I'm skeptical of "AI writes most". Something smells off. Thank You!

Comment Re: Yes (Score 2) 201

Are you going to mention how our own economy has changed as it has increasingly fallen under the sway of finance guys and MBAs? Because the claim is significantly more specific than "the US from 1950 to present sucks"(because the hyperfocus on finance and MBAs who think that all activities are fungible is significantly newer than the postwar US economy generally) and it's some of the trends you see in an exceptionally favorable economy as they displace other flavors of management that are most damning.

Comment Hard to be surprised. (Score 2) 78

Even aside from how unhappy site operators are about the egregious botherd scraping behavior; it's hard to see why vendors would be enthusiastic about this situation.

It's overwhelmingly the case that vendors hate returns and chargebacks; and generally try to avoid situations where those are more likely to arise. An error-prone mechanism that acts "on behalf of" in a way where it does have the user's credentials and payment information but may well not have their authorization in a legally binding way when it decides to order 100 of something seems like the last thing they would want to deal with.

Maybe someone will manage to ram through glorious-agentic-future and it will become de-facto mandatory to cater to people who have abandoned ordering from websites in favor of prompting bots to order for them; but until that happens it's hard to see merchants reputable enough that they are interested in keeping their ratings and relationships with payment processors in good order wanting to touch the situation. Now, scammers who already hop between expendable presences as soon as dissatisfaction catches up with them; those are probably quite interested in the future of prompt injection based advertising.

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