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If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

30% of code is standard boilerplate: setters, getters, etc that my IDE builds for me without calling it AI. It's possible the claim is true, but it's terribly misleading at best.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  1. Perhaps you didn’t read the linked article. Nadella didn’t claim that 30% of MS’s code was written by AI. What he said was garbled up to the eventual headline.
  2. We don’t have to play devil’s advocate for a hyped-up headline that misquotes what an AI glazer said, dawg.
  3. “Existing code generation codes can write 30%” doesn’t imply that AI possibly/plausibly wrote 30% of MS’s code. There’s no logical connection. Please dawg, I beg you, think critically about this.
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess their brains don't lift

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Man. If this LLM stuff sticks around, we’ll have an epidemic of early onset dementia.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If the stories lf covid related cognitive decline are aue we are going to have a great time. Worse than lead paint.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Oh man, this brain fog I have sure makes it hard to think. Guess I’ll use my trusty LLM! ChatGPT says lead paint is tastier and better for your brain than COVID? Don’t mind if I do!”

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm on a diet of rocks, glue on my pizza, lead paint, and covid infections, according to Grok this is called the Mr Burns method which should prevent diseases, as they all work together to block all bad impulses. Can't wait to try this new garlic oil I made, using LLM instructions. It even had these cool bubbles while fermenting, nature is great.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That garlic oil will taste great with wild mushrooms, don’t buy them though, just ask chatGPT to make a list of mushrooms you can forage for free

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Ah the book that made me change my mind on book bannings.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

I've been beating this drum for like 4~5y but: I don't think the tech itself is going anywhere. published, opensourced, etc etc - the bell can't be unrung, the horses have departed the stable

but

I do also argue that an extremely large amount of wind in the sails right now is because of the constellation of VC/hype//etc shit

can't put a hard number on this, but .... I kind see a very massive reduction; in scope, in competence, in relevance. so much of this shit (esp. the "but my opensource model is great!" flavour) is so fucking reliant on "oh yeah this other entity had a couple fuckpiles of cash with which to train", and once that (structurally) evaporates...