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Comment Re:Todays AI is all smoke and mirrors! (Score 1) 89

It seems to me that these systems are big if..then..else.. generators. Just to emphasize the fact that it is purely mechanic, and still falls under the restrictions of GÃdel's Incompleteness Theorem and the Halting Problem.

As for support for coding, can the model explain why something needs to be coded in a certain way? If I work with ReSharper, I can always check why a certain style needs to be used.

Comment This is proof that most software writers... (Score 1) 99

are not engineers.

When engineering, you need to be able to give an explanation for everything that you do or add. You need to be able to review things.

Now, more than ever, the saying

If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. In the words of a conventional engineer's cynical adage: 'If architects built houses the way programmers write software, one woodpecker could bring about the collapse of civilisation'

I do mostly requirements, and even if the customer asks for a change, any change, they need to provide an explanation what this change is for.

It's the requirements and the changes, stupid...

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