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No the fuck it's not
I'm a pretty big proponent of FOSS AI, but none of the models I've ever used are good enough to work without a human treating it like a tool to automate small tasks. In my workflow there is no difference between LLMs and fucking grep for me.
People who think AI codes well are shit at their job
No the fuck it's not
Because it's a upscaled translation tech maybe?
There are plenty of open issues on open source repos it could open PRs for though?
I'm guessing if it would actually work for that, somebody would have done it by now.
But it probably just does it's usual thing of bullshitting something that looks like code, only now you're wasting the time of maintainers as well who have to confirm that it is bobbins.
It's already doing that, some FOSS projects regularly get weird PRs that on first glance look good, but if you look closer are either total nonsense or riddled with bugs. Especially awful are security-related PRs; although those are never made in good faith, that's usually grifting (throwing AI at the wall trying to cash in as many bounties as possible). The project lead of curl recently announced that anyone who posts a PR that's obviously AI, or is made with AI, will get banned.
Like, it's really good as a learning tool as long as you don't blindly believe everything it says given you can ask stuff in natural language and it will resolve possible knowledge dependencies for you that you'd otherwise get stuck on in official docs, and since you can ask contextual questions receiving contextual answers (no logical abstraction). But code generation… please don't.
it’s really good as a learning tool as long as you don’t blindly believe everything it says given you can ask stuff in natural language
the poster: "it's really good as a learning tool"
the poster: "but don't blindly believe it"
the learner: "how should I know when to believe it?"
the poster: "check everything"
the learner: "so you're saying I should just read the actual documentation and/or source?"
the poster: "how are you going to ask that anything? how can you fondle something that isn't a prompt?!"
the learner: "thanks for your time, I think I'm going to find another class"
Yea it's a problem already for security bugs, llms just waste maintainers time and make them angry.
They are useless and make more work for programmers, even on python and js codebases that they are trained on the most and are the "easiest".
People have done it, there's a bunch of services that do it. But they're paid.
fuck off with the unrequested advertising kthx
Your upvote/downvote ratio will become a ratio of people who are good and bad at coding.
please don't encourage them, someones got to review that shit!
Ai review baby!!! Here we go!
Don't fucking encourage them
It's so bad at coding... Like, it's not even funny.
I treat AI as a new intern that doesn't know how to code well. You need to code review everything, but it's good for fast generation. Just don't trust more than a couple of lines at a time.
We submit copilot assisted code all the time. Like every day. I'm not even sure how you'd identify ours. Looks almost exactly the same. Just less work.
Oh cool what do you work on? I’d love to know the product.
Definitely not dozing myself in this place 🤣
@IsThisAnAI @dgerard I spray shit at the wall all the time. Like every day
The people who own the walls are *vexed*
Cheers who don't use AI to assist them are worse than those that do. Feel bad.