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Thank you. Dude checked in a shit load of code before going on PTO for three weeks. We get pretty live plots of data, but he broke basically every hardware driver in the process.
That's actually terrifying. Code has been degrading a lot in the past 10 years or so, and it looks like the LLM trend for code is doing more harm than good. I don't think that needs to be the case but it appears to be the case.
Like, Microsoft's CEO bragging that 25% of all their code was written by AI, and that was a year plus ago now so it's probably higher at this point... I don't find that reassuring, it's part of the reason I won't let my Windows workstation upgrade to 23H2 and I've almost completely converted to Linux at home (I keep the laptop running my simulator games on Windows because peripherals can be a pain to get working right without the manufacturer's software, but it's also locked to 23H2)
And I've used AI to assist me with writing code.
But that's the distinction: it assists me, it doesn't write it for me. If I don't understand how or why something works or why I would do it this way, I'm not using it in production. Far too many seem to be checking out, though, and telling their GPT to take the wheel, and that's where I think one of the biggest issues comes in.