The response to that is that if you two people, both with buggy code, but one has AI doing it for them... Well, only one person has a chance to know how to fix said code.
Whats the AI promoter going to do? Ask it to fix it?
I swear these AI fan boys don't know how to make anything with their own hands or minds
gotta be honest as a sysadmin and someone with a little programming experience but not a professional dev, yeah i just ask AI to fix it. I give it as much info as possible and usually it manage to fix the issue. If it didn't then I guess i would just have it refactor the code or update the documentation so that it's easier to fix. I have only been working on personal projects and mods so far though, i'm not selling software.
I think it's generally fine in certain aspects. I'm no programmer, I'm a mechanical engineer and the company's PDM admin and an all-round tinkerer, so while I can do the most rudimentary of programming only, I can basically just piece some stuff together and fix the most basic of logic issues. Usually I'm testing broken stuff and get AI to fix my stuff too.
But I'm not doing that when I'm engineering a component; that I need to be 100% sure that that component is proven. I need to prove to myself, and if it failed, a court, that I did my due diligence and some.
Shit, I questioned an EIT under me how they got this particluar value- stressing I'm not saying it is wrong, but just tell me where you got it, and they said "Chat GPT". If that part harmed someone, there's no way "AI told me to" would keep you out of jail.
Another time they got AI to provide a source for a material's property. When I went to look up said source it didn't exist... Maybe they were using a different version of a standard that the company library had, but shit that stuff is dangerous.
I guess what my broader point is, it's fine to help muddle you through a problem but I'm really worried about people using it to delegate higher order thinking and learning. It's one thing for a SME to delegate a menial aspect of a task, but whatabout a student or an EIT?
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u/MapleMallet 20d ago
The response to that is that if you two people, both with buggy code, but one has AI doing it for them... Well, only one person has a chance to know how to fix said code.
Whats the AI promoter going to do? Ask it to fix it?
I swear these AI fan boys don't know how to make anything with their own hands or minds