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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly, that's a smart thing for AI companies to do. AI is surprisingly decent at extrapolating from existing codebases, but it's useless at starting from scratch. If one model says "I can't do that, Dave" and another spits out garbage, you're getting the same amount of useful code out of both and a much better signal-to-noise ratio from the first.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

imo it's the opposite, AI is good at starting projects by giving you boilerplate code, but bad at considering the full context of an existing project. Better to be doing the larger structure stuff yourself and only giving the LLM self contained tasks.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 26 points 4 months ago

Finally, we got a based AI

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

AI trained by reddit and stackoverflow, I guarantee it

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did they train this one on redditors too? Next it’s gonna talk to a lawyer and hit up the gym. Maybe we’ll get lucky and skynet will get confused and delete all of Facebook.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

I can't wait for it to rickrole random people