Post #4382183

2026-08-04 17:44 UTC

Isn’t this actually kinda what AI is good for? I mean a simple task that just takes time and has step-by-step instructions, and you can just let it handle it and do it faster. Like its almost as good as writing a long script that just does it for the user?

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@bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-08-04 20:19

The install process should be deterministic. When you run sudo make install it should do the same thing every time you run it. If this process fails, it’s because of a missing dependency or permission issue or something like that. The failure should never be because of a statistically probability during installation that causes the installer to go off and do something wildly different.

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@atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-08-05 00:15

Arent computer programs already a set of instructions? Why add a really big program that inputs instructions in a different format and that is worse at following those instructions because that was not what it was mode for

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@Mikina@programming.dev 2026-08-05 04:18

As someone who had his relatively fine and deterministic scripts replaced by skill.md bullshit by coworkers – no. This is exactly the things AI is the worst fit for. We’ve already ran into it halucinating complete result data-set, because it ran into an error but the skill mentioned that it should give the results data to the user. So it just made it up, since it couldn’t get it by following the correct process. It has also ran wrong builds or input parameters, because it confused their order. I’ve also seen it skip a step. If you suck so much you can’t write a simple script like this (or just can’t be bothered), you should at least just ask the AI to write it for you, so you have a deterministic set of steps that you are confident will always behave the same.

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