Then, what makes the process between product managers and software developers very often a bit friction-loaded is that good developers always want to have clear specifications what they are supposed to build.
Excellent observation, which aligns with my observation that fans of “coding assistants” can’t wrap their head around algorithms, not to mention a sound software architecture.
I froze my rsync package the day that was announced. fuck the dev :(
I don’t see how the machine that generates code that must be assumed to be broken, and statements about said code that must be assumed to be wrong, until both have been manually verified, because the “hallucination” issue is inherent to the design of LLMs and cannot be solved, is supposed to make my life easier. Especially since a well known problem in computer science is that writing code is more fun than reading it.
quoted for emphasis. you have more patience than I do in telling sycophants why their take is idiotic.
but blanket hate for AI in code is extremely frustrating
you misspelled “extremely deserved”
that was previous commenter’s point. you missed it. LLM coding assistants are for people who can’t think their way through an algorithm.
and AI assisted code is fairly well crushing those metrics.
Lol. You have zero understanding of efficient coding, don’t you?
Well capitalism is based on unethical practices so what’s the point of striving to be ethical!!!
Is what I’m reading
I am reading the same. A variation of “everyone’s doing it, why should I act ethical?” Fuck them.
The poor QA department (2 people) is now trying to figure out how to test all the slop.
I’d hand in my resignation…
I have occasionally used anonymous browser sessions in the way you describe, and I still feel dirty for it and think it’s problematic. It did not affect the quality of my code because I never did the 2nd bullet, I never asked for drop-in code or used any, but the ethical implications suck donkeyballs so I hate that I do this occasionally - I blame really bad documentation of some build environments.
the only people getting a net use out of LLM garbage are sub-par programmers. and I say that partially as a self burn because I have consulted slop chatbots to get some keywords / usage examples for functions I didn’t know yet. Even though I never used any drop-in code, and verified the usage of all that I “learned” from such conversations, the output was incredibly shitty and had to many holes in it that most people wouldn’t even spot because “it just works”. Using slop bots in coding / vibe-coding is offloading your incompetence as work onto future programmers.
Ai is here to stay whether we like it or not.
stop. calling. slop. ai. It’s a shitty subcategory of it. Just like actual dog poo is a subcategory of organic chemical compounds.
Machine learning isn’t going anywhere.
As someone who despises the current slop hype with a passion, you’re correct on this. But only when you exclude LLMs. Because they are garbage with a net negative for mankind. Machine learning as a field however has very useful applications. Typically such that complement human assessment of data, e.g. re-viewing radiology images to flag potentially anomalous images for a second doctor to look at - not in place of the first doctor.
the more data you feed into it, the better the output becomes.
And that’s bullshit. The slop machines have already peaked. More input will not improve the results.
I always wonder where this sentiment comes from. Whether or not AI is going anywhere is still very much up in the air
It exclusively comes from either snake oil vendors or people who are less smart than they think they are. Where the former are typically part of the latter group.
AI is a new technology that is not going anywhere. I would put my faith into their decisions to improve this project by whatever means they think are best.
Aaaand just like that you disqualified yourself from having an opinion worth listening to on what “insanely talented engineers” are.
As a programmer, I can always run stuff without installing ;) As a user, however, I wish to have 3D acceleration capable graphics drivers for the occasional game.
Could have but
I had to freeze rsync because of that :(
Torvalds losing his marbles is not new, sadly.
as a Debian user: I wish they had chosen a distro that didn’t just decide to accept slop contributions.
you mean the guy who started losing his marbles like 5 years ago?