I've been using AI like a first semester intern, and it works great and for what I use it for it is much faster than me doing it by hand

boss: "hey, we need to suck this csv file in and store in a DB for the report writers..."

me to ai - "for this csv header row, make a DB2 create table statement, add an auto generated index called row_id, and then create a pojo that uses the @BindByName, @Entity and @Column annotations to import and save it" and then give it the CSV header row. Copy/paste results to my IDE, a bit of clean up and it is pretty much done.

For this type of stuff it is great, but you do need to treat it like a first semester intern and be explicit with your directions and then double check and confirm everything ....

If anything like psilocybin mushrooms or peyote, you puke and the trip kicks in

I'd rather people learn the skills that make a good coder - critical thinking, problem analysis, etc.

The BSD license is more "do what you want with the code" whereas the GPL is protective of the next guy down the line

Better, take money out.

What percentage of seats available were sold?

Indeed... they left out the 3rd state when starting this whole thing...

âoeIn fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.â

â Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

I do a lot of ETL work, and I'm using AI as a first-semester-intern type worker.

"Make me a Java class that matches this CSV header so I can import the file using OpenCSV"

"Make me a DB2 create table statement that matches this Java class"

etc.

I'm too lazy to create an account and provide any extra training and such, so I do end up needing to fix a few things related to our internal standards on naming and DB table structure, and I have to add the permission grants statements but it saves me plenty of copy/paste time, etc.

Don't think it matters much which language or dev, there will be something about their primary working language that they don't like and a feature from some other language they wish was available in it.

For a small business cash could also be a way of them avoiding the taxes on it.

And a more Windows-like look and feel with a default install, unlike the very tablet-y Gnome/Unity interface in a default Ubuntu install.

I've moved several very non-technical people to Mint, and it Just Works for them

A comment I used to see (and occasionally post) on stackoverflow...

Maybe it would make the academic folk happier if they could upload their assignments with some meta info and have the AI know they are homework, changing the responses to future inquiries. "No, this is a common homework problem for CS101, I can't generate the code but I can help you understand how to do it on your own ...."

Quick and easy to develop in and had that neat trick of being able to convert over to using a MSSQL server with a few clicks which made it almost workable for multiuser purposes

The Nokia 770 shipped with just a Debian-based install on it. Could even point the sources.list to the Debian stable ARM repo.

Granted it was just a tablet and not a phone, but still...

Well, no. It gave you tons of options that you had to explore to even find out they existed

PLUGH

(and why yes, I still play nethack today....)

Or connect to a half dozen or more and make sure more than one pair (or triplet) all agree on location.

Or use a secondary method like VOR, etc. and compare results vs. GPS.