Comment You have to know programming for AI to work (Score 1) 113
A co-worker told me that AI is like working with a jr programmer, who never says no, and constantly lies. AI has no ability to say "I don't know", it will always deliver an answer, because most AI is a neural network, which is just a giant pachinko machine. So whatever AI spits out, you have to be able to have programmed it to know if it is good code or not and fix any flaws.
To me this seems exactly like the offshore developer craze in the 80s and 90s. I have worked with lots of very talented overseas developers and they are cheaper, but I don't know how many projects I have been brought into to fix that were built by bottom dollar overseas teams. One literally had a 100 nested if statement instead of using something like recursion. Often we would throw away their code and start over as it was faster to fix. And 80% or more of the time with a software project is maintenance. How are you going to do that with AI spaghetti, because the person who used AI did not really know how to program? That feels exactly like what is going to happen with AI.