• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    It’s not about it being counterproductive. It’s about correctness. If a tool produces a million lines of pure compilable gibberish unrelated to what you’re trying to do, from a pure lines of code perspective, that’d be a productive tool. But software development is more complicated than writing the most lines.

    Now, I’m not saying that AI tools produce pure compilable gibberish, but they don’t reliably produce correct code either. So, they fall somewhere in the middle, and similarly to “driver assistance” technologies that half automate things but require constant supervision, it’s quite possible that the middle is the worst area for a tool to fall into.

    Everywhere around AI tools there are asterisks about it not always producing correct results. The developer using the tool is ultimately responsible for the output of their own commits, but the tool itself shares in the blame because of its unreliable nature.

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      1 month ago

      Copilot produces useful and correct code for me 5 days a week. I’m sorry you don’t see the same benefits.

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        1 month ago

        I’m sorry that I provided mild criticism for something you obviously pop a big boner for. 😆

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          pop a big boner for

          TIL that also means “annoyed by people presenting nuance-free, ignorant viewpoints based on their own narrow experience which is often zero”

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            No it doesn’t, it means you are obviously in love with this tool.

            Did you have an AI do this reply for you? Because the quoted portion isn’t correct. 😆

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              You’re so clever that you rage the same as the majority and how dare anyone contradict that?! Only a bot would hold an opinion counter to the masses, eh? lol

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                Dude, I’m gonna need you to respond again…in english this time, and please read first.