Yeah, only in the one case, you're helping a fellow human being learn something and become good in the profession. In the other, you're blowing money and resources away for absolutely no other gain but to increase bottom-line of a company. If you kill all junior devs because "you can replace them with the AI", who are going to be the senior developers of tomorrow?

It seems that the experiences shared here largely confirm the findings

What exactly does this tell us? That the LLM was trained on this example / code fed by tens of thousands of trekkies and was therefore able to regurgitate it. Would be interesting to see where the code snippets are originating from

This is a very refreshing new aspect, never thought of it!

But if the net effect is "costs more", why would you actually ever use it at all?

All that matters is they have everyone's money, can influence elections and are too big to fail. Give them a break - AI is hard.

Yep, this is when the context is full. Nuke the chat and start again.

My current favourite is "Oh, now I understand completely what's happening" (for the seventeenth time in a row - all of which were too-hasty.

No (but also yes).

If you let it write code freely, you can spend hours or days trying to figure out what the f**k it's done and why it's not done what you asked or why it randomly introduces a complete re-write for a single-line fix.

Heavily constrained yes.

It's so heartbreaking to read about "bad libs who fucked it all up" while this administration does literally everything wrong. Everything, man! Trump is even demolishing the WH. Checks and balances are not existing any more. Drunkard idiots are scolding top military officials for being fat and unshaved. People are regularly killed in foreign waters. Utterly incompetent people are in the position of power, the country is being dismantled, working structures destroyed without replacement. What once was a proud country the world looked up to, despite all the downsides (euch are inevitable) is going down the drain. And you're bitching about feminists and liberals?

Yes, in 1999. The immediate result of this vote was hiring Carly Fiorina as the CEO.

Like a theme park version of it.

So the new AI is going to be so 'opt-in' that it needs a killswitch you can use to get rid of it?

I realize that marketing and PR flacks are subhuman enemies of communication; but that's not even pretending to be what 'opt-in' means.

The characterization of "risk of artificial intelligence overpowering humanity" as the substance of an 'AI debate' seems itself like a strategy in trying to forestall it.

Sure, there's some fun sci-fi there; but most of what actual people are actually concerned about is what specific parts of humanity are using 'AI' to do, or justifying doing in the name of 'AI'; not fretting about how skynet might kill us all. And it's exceptionally handy to pretend that that is what people are fretting about; both because it's a distant and vague enough problem that you can justify punting most action without even lying; and because it's not even false that (perhaps outside of a handful who have outright cracked and started thinking about it in religious terms) even the most psychopathic techbros are also against skynet exterminating everyone; both because that would include them; and because Judgement Day would not be a good time for social media engagement metrics.

I remember a discussion I had over 20 years ago here on slashdot with one someome who proudly declared that the USA would never become a tyranny because the "oathkeepers" would overthrow any tyrant with their firearms. I told them that those "oathkeepers" most likely will join the jackboots instead and it looks like I was right.

I'm amused by those who imagine that the laws of physics can be defied merely by looking the other way. It makes me ponder how unbelievably moronic humanity is, how pathetic, and how deserving of what it is come.