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SaharaMaleikuhm ,

But are the shareholders pleased?

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@lemmy.world avatar

Oh geez…who could have seen this coming?

Oh wait, every single senior developer who is currently railing against their moron AI-bandwagoning CEOs.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Lmao this is precisely how I thought this would turn out.

melroy ,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

No sh*t, this is what I predicted from day one.

Eheran ,

So you predicted that security flaws in software are not going to vanish with AI?

_sideffect ,

“AI” is just good for simple code snippets. (Which it stole from Github repos).

This whole ai bs needs to die already, and the people who lie about it held accountable.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

The thing I dislike most about code assisting tools is that they’re geared to answering your questions instead of giving advice. I’m sure they also give bad recommendations but I’ve seen LLMs basically double down on bad code.

fluxion ,

Debugging and maintenance was always the hardest aspect of large code bases… writing the code is the easy part. Offloading that part to AI only makes the hard stuff harder

ShittyBeatlesFCPres ,

If I was still in a senior dev position, I’d ban AI code assistants for anyone with less than around 10 years experience. It’s a time saver if you can read code almost as fluently as you can read your own native language but even besides the A.I. code introducing bugs, it’s often not the most efficient way. It’s only useful if you can tell that at a glance and reject its suggestions as much as you accept them.

Which, honestly, is how I was when I was first starting out as a developer. I thought I was hot shit and contributing and I was taking half a day to do tasks an experienced developer could do in minutes. Generative AI is a new developer: irrationally confident, not actually saving time, and rarely doing things the best way.

Windex007 ,

Even worse than it being wrong, is that by nature of the tool it looks right.

GetOffMyLan , (edited )

I’ve found they’re great as a learning tool where decent docs are available. Or as an interactive docs you can ask follow up questions to.

We mostly use c# and it’s amazing at digging into the MS docs to pull out useful things from the bcl or common patterns.

Our new juniors got up to speed so fast by asking it to explain stuff in the existing codebases. Which in turn takes pressure off more senior staff.

I got productive in vuejs in a large codebase in a couple days that way.

Using to generate actual code is insanely shit haha It is very similar to just copy pasting code and hacking it in without understanding it.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres ,

You make a good point about using it for documentation and learning. That’s a pretty good use case. I just wouldn’t want young developers to use it for code completion any more than I’d want college sophomores to use it for writing essays. Professors don’t have you write essays because they like reading essays. Sometimes, doing a task manually is the point of the assignment.

dinckelman ,

I have a lot of empathy for a lot of people. Even ones, who really don’t deserve it. But when it comes to people like these, I have absolutely none. If you make a chatbot do your corporate security, it deserves to burn to the ground

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

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YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ,

This must sound terrible. So high pitched

aodhsishaj ,

Maybe so high pitched it’s out of the hearing range of most humans

fuzzy_feeling ,

ahahahaha…

Telorand ,

Wow, the text generator that doesn’t actually understand what it’s “writing” is making mistakes? Who could have seen that coming?

I once asked one to write a basic 50-line Python program (just to flesh things out), and it made so many basic errors that any first-year CS student could catch. Nobody should trust LLMs with anything related to security, FFS.

skillissuer , (edited )
@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Nobody should trust LLMs with anything

ftfy

also any inputs are probably scrapped and used for training, and none of these people get GDPR

mox , (edited )

also any inputs are probably scraped

ftfy

Let’s hope it’s the bad outputs that are scrapped. <3

blackjam_alex ,

My experience with ChatGPT goes like this:

  • Write me a block of code that makes x thing
  • Certainly, here’s your code
  • Me: This is wrong.
  • You’re right, this is the correct version
  • Me: This is wrong again.
  • You’re right, this is the correct version
  • Me: Wrong again, you piece of junk.
  • I’m sorry, this is the correct version.
  • (even more useless code) … and so on.
TaintPuncher ,

That sums up my experience too, but I have found it good for discussing functions for SQL and Powershell. Sometimes, it’ll throw something into its garbage code and I’ll be like “what does this do?” It’ll explain how it’s supposed to work, I’ll then work out its correct usage and solve my problem. Weirdly, it’s almost MORE helpful than if it just gave me functional code, because I have to learn how to properly use it rather than just copy/paste what it gives me.

Telorand ,

That’s true. The mistakes actually make learning possible!

Man, designing CS curriculum will be easy in future. Just ask it to do something simple, and ask your CS students to correct the code.

saltesc ,

All the while it gets further and further from the requirements. So you open five more conversations, give them the same prompt, and try pick which one is least wrong.

All the while realising you did this to save time but at this point coding from scratch would have been faster.

SketchySeaBeast ,
@SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca avatar

I wish we could say the students will figure it out, but I’ve had interns ask for help and then I’ve watched them try to solve problems by repeatedly asking ChatGPT. It’s the scariest thing - “Ok, let’s try to think about this problem for a moment before we - ok, you’re asking ChatGPT to think for a moment. FFS.”

jaggedrobotpubes ,

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SuperFola ,
@SuperFola@programming.dev avatar

How come the hallucinating ghost in the machine is generating code so bad the production servers hallucinate even harder and crash?

Telorand ,

You have to be hallucinating to understand.

Drunemeton ,
@Drunemeton@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve licked the frog twice! How many does it take?

Telorand ,

A-one. A-two-hoo. A-three… Crumch

henfredemars ,

I’m not sure how AI supposed to understand code. Most of the code out there is garbage. Even most of the working code out there in the world today is garbage.

SuperFola ,
@SuperFola@programming.dev avatar

Heck, I sometimes can’t understand my own code. And this AI thing tries to tell me I should move this code over there and do this and that and then poof it doesn’t compile anymore. The thing is even more clueless than me.

elvith ,

Randomly rearranging non working code one doesn’t understand… sometimes gets working code, sometimes doesn’t fix the bug, sometimes it won’t even compile anymore? Has no clue what the problem is and only solves it randomly by accident?

Sounds like the LLM is as capable as me /s

henfredemars ,

Sometimes you even get newer and more interesting bugs!

henfredemars , (edited )

AI can be a useful tool, but it’s not a substitute for actual expertise. More reviews might patch over the problem, but at the end of the day, you need a competent software developer who understands the business case, risk profile, and concrete needs to take responsibility for the code if that code is actually important.

AI is not particularly good at coding, and it’s not particularly good at the human side of engineering either. AI is cheap. It’s the outsourcing problem all over again and with extra steps of having an algorithm hide the indirection between the expertise you need and the product you’re selling.

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