alanpaxton

RE: @asymco@mastodon.social

I’m glad someone hopes to still be around tomorrow.

@datarama@hachyderm.io @drajt@fosstodon.org @tphinney@typo.social @cstross@wandering.shop @lemgandi@mastodon.social @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social The Huntford dual biography discusses this. Amundsen spent 3 years in the Arctic as the first to sail the Northwest Passage. In that telling he basically set out to learn all he could from the Inuit.

@osma oh yea, didn’t see that one coming at all

@fxnn @jcoglan @akahn I take a sceptical view about whether AI is truly capable of these tasks, so I will wait to be shown. Driven by doubt that the little I understand of how LLMs work is truly capable of capturing higher order reasoning, and reflective/introspective thought. But perhaps these turn out to be unnecessary for building good software.

@fxnn @jcoglan @akahn Generating missing tests has strict requirements on what we want the test to do (prompting) and checking that the resulting test clearly exercises what it is meant to exercise. What value is AI giving that DIY coding isn’t ? What does AI code conforming to a set of TDD tests do when we add a feature ? Can it refactor, Fowler-style, or will it generate a new version of code that satisfies the n+1 tests ? Could we support/maintain a system like that ?

@jcoglan @akahn no argument from me there. Just Hamlet level depths of sadness and despair.

@akahn @jcoglan don’t mention the unit tests