Post #4389603

@mhoye@cosocial.ca There's a false dichotomy at work here: "do it myself" or "let the AI do it unreliably" are not the only options. Rather than spend 4 hours cutting and pasting boilerplate do do something I've done 8 times before at another employer, I can have the AI take 10 minutes to put together that same boilerplate - likely from the same sources I use - and then spend an hour turning the unreliable result into reliable, tested code. You don't do "either-or", you do "and". Then spend the 3 hours you just saved doing something more creatively interesting. The AI isn't a replacement - it's a tool. It accelerates. And yes the output is often crude or just wrong - correctness (and planning and fit-for-purpose and budget and about 18 other things) is your job. A chainsaw is dangerous, and can cut down the wrong trees. It's your job to mitigate that danger and choose the right trees. The real issues with AI are not as simple as "it's wrong, a lot". It's issues of training and intellectual rights and what it's doing to the economy and displacement of workers and *none* of those are the AI's fault - they're the fault of human beings creating and selling them. As is crappy output making it past the human who should have fixed it.