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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Usage is rising because corporate executives started getting kickbacks and thinking they could cut staff by implementing it. But developers who have actually had to use it have realized it can be useful in a few scenarios, but requires a ton of review of anything it writes because it rarely understands context and often makes mistakes that are really hard to debug because they are subtle. So anyone trying to use it for a language or system they don't understand well is going to have a hard time.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

because it rarely understands context

It never understands context.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And it cannot understand context because it does not think, it’s just an expensive prediction tool

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's just Markov chains running on a heap of poorly governed sources. Expensive because Markov chains are brutish to process. The only intelligence is in the source they calculate on. Literally a basic "what goes in comes out" math process.

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