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Comment Re:I still get terrible results from "coding" agen (Score 1) 62

It's like visual coding or RAD all over again. Whenever suits and PHBs are told there's a magic wand that'll allow them to do without paying people for the nitty-gritty bits, they get all excited and convince each other in their echo chamber that their dream of a company of all managers and no workers is just around the corner.

Then reality says "hi", the hype dies down, a few scam artists got rich and the world continues as it was, with a couple new cool tools in the toolbox of those who know how to use them correctly - which is generally the same people that were supposedly being replaced.

Comment a free intern for everyone (Score 1) 62

That's how I see AI. I've been writing software for the better part of 40 years. What I see from AI is sometimes astonishing and sometimes pathetic. I would never, ever, ever put AI generated code into production software without carefull checking and refactoring, and I would fire anyone who does.

Code completion is mostly in the "astonishing" part. If I write a couple lines of near-identical stuff, like assigning values from an input to a structured format for processing, the AI most of the time gets right the next line I want to write. Anything more complex than that is hit-and-miss.

Mostly, I use AI the way I would use an intern. "Can you look up how to use this function correctly? What are the parameters and their defaults?" or "Write me some code that's tedious to write (like lots of transformation operations) but not rocket science by far.
Essentially, it does faster and a little bit better what previously I'd have done with Google and Stackoverflow.

I have no fear it'll replace developers anytime soon. Half of the time the code is outright wrong, most of the time it has glaring security issues or isn't half as fault-tolerant as it should be, and for any case where I know how to do it without any research, I'd be faster writing the code myself then going through several iterations with an AI to get it done.

Comment Re:Now deport Elon (Score 4, Insightful) 218

You know what sucks? I don't like Elon, either. The idea of him getting hit with just-desserts is quite enticing. But I don't want to live in a world where he'd be deported by the US Gov't for standing up to the President.

I'd rather have the first amendment even if it means Elon's still here.

Comment S'all good (Score 4, Funny) 135

For the first time, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) in May. The new readings were a record high and represented an increase of more than 3 ppm over last year.

That's okay, my folks the next town over said it was unusually cold over the weekend.

Comment economic policy impact (Score 1) 68

Trump's tariff shenanigans put a bunch of construction costs in flux, stalled projects, and earned me a reduction in pay and furloughs. Gee golly gosh yes I didn't spend money on video games and a bunch of other shit this year.

If my employment ever levels out I'll look into getting a Switch 2, but if the price goes up due to more 'economic policies' I won't be getting that, either. Oh and it's not like there's an American Switch 2 I can move on to.

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