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Comment Can't disagree (Score 4, Informative) 21

So maybe I'm holding it wrong, but every time I use bing I seem to get results that just don't match what I'm looking for, as well as google.

Take the search "confluence java jsoup".

For me, google result first page is the Atlassian (who makes Confluence) Java documentation on jsoup. Just where I want to start things. Bing? Produces stakoverflow pages that are relevant to Confluence, but appear not to have jsoup, a Baeldung page on jsoup with no Confluence relevance, the jsoup docs (not Confluence relevant), then finally a link to one of the jsoup classes in the Atlassian documentation, not the package summary (yes a run on sentence, but mimics what looking through bing felt like).

Just do not feel like bing is doing as good as google, though maybe I found some extreme example.

Comment Programming != Coding (Score 1) 165

The typical mistake I feel like people make when thinking that AI is going to replace programming is thinking all programmers do is write code. Once a programmer learns how to code generically, they can write code in any language, it is not hard. The hard part is figuring out what a program is supposed to do. Knowing how to write requirements, understanding logical mathematics and problem solving. Learn to model a program, not just code it. This is different from "biology, education, manufacturing, or farming", which is important, but I feel the skills needed to become a good programmer are very underrepresented in the educational system.

Comment Re:Maybe some day... (Score 1) 31

AI researchers will invent something useful, like tools for finding tricky bugs in software. Even more useful would be a simulation that accurately predicted the real world results of proposed laws

Instead, they work on tools that allow people to make more crap that is useless at best, and potentially very harmful if used as a weapon

Some of the trickiest bugs in software are not really bugs, but implementation that differs from the intended purpose. To find these, the ML would need to understand what the software should do, which often the people writing the code don't fully understand.

Have the LLMs "listen" to the spec meetings where marketing says one thing, accounting says another thing, customer service says another thing, the dev team lower expectations somewhere closer to reality, and then sales comes in to sweep the leg and send everybody back into daydream central. If an LLM can sort that mess out, then maybe the LLM can tell the developers WTF they're supposed to be building.

Or at least provide a nice concise summary of how what everyone wants all conflicts with what everyone else wants. Though I'm sure even with that, some members of the meetings would still think doing everything at once is possible.

Comment Re:Maybe some day... (Score 2) 31

AI researchers will invent something useful, like tools for finding tricky bugs in software. Even more useful would be a simulation that accurately predicted the real world results of proposed laws

Instead, they work on tools that allow people to make more crap that is useless at best, and potentially very harmful if used as a weapon

Some of the trickiest bugs in software are not really bugs, but implementation that differs from the intended purpose. To find these, the ML would need to understand what the software should do, which often the people writing the code don't fully understand.

Comment Re: Don't sound like a generative AI (Score 1) 107

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