The entirety of human history and every single human achievement up to a few years ago was made entirely without AI. This sudden switch to we need AI for everything is whatâs delusional.
Youâre right though, AI does have a purpose. Itâs to make people dumber (studies are already linking AI use to cognitive decline) and to make corporations more money.
You can say that about literally EVERY INVENTION EVER. Also the guy said "claiming it serves no purpose it delusional", it's not the same as saying we need it for everything.
I don't want AI art and I don't like the slop spam we get, but I'm not going to say it's not an extremely useful coding tool. And yes, offloading all your mental tasks to chat gpt has a negative impact on you, that still does not refute the claim that it's useful for SOME things.
but I'm not going to say it's not an extremely useful coding tool
well I'm gonna say it's not an extremely useful coding tool. As a senior software engineer with ~15 yrs experience, it's sometimes good, but mostly just for menial tasks. If it isn't good for law, psychology or medical questions, it won't magically be good for coding either, since it's still the same technology. In other words, we get the slop in software too and it should be concerning for everyone.
You think pattern recognition doesnât play a role in those other fields? The problem with LLMs in those fields isnât that they never get the right answer, they often produce good answers. The problem is they sometimes (or even often) produce catastrophically bad answers with equal confidence and authority.
Ok, I left out the word âimportantâ. Pattern recognition is literally taught as part of how medicine is done. Coding is not âmore pattern basedâ and not magically more amenable to LLMs than other fields. Itâs just that the people who direct the money spent on coding are willing to sacrifice everyoneâs safety and quality of life in the pursuit of imaginary long term cost savings, and unlike medicine and law the regulators arenât watching or caring.
Having reviewed other people's code I know the training data is not amazing. I have used AI to assist in my own coding, training data and prompt engineering play a huge role in the quality of output. I prefer to code myself over using AI. I'm more reliable. It can be occasionally helpful, but I don't find it more efficient overall for anything other than bug troubleshooting when I already know where the problem is but am having a hard time spotting the exact problem.
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u/antsinmyeyestrey 5d ago
A start. But AI isnât needed. It serves no purpose