This also applies to writing emails. Some folks were bad enough at it before. Now, they'll never learn, and can't even proof read what the AI wrote....so their emails aren't any better now, than they were before.
Fuck AI
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I use copilot at work. the predictive generation is pretty good i.e you start writing a for loop and it finishes it for you with all the variable names used correctly (most of the time). This also has the added benefit of making you name your variables clearly. the better they are the better the predicitions will be. i wouldnt trust it to do more than that though
This has been happening for quite a while. Do you know how to work a sewing machine? Have you ever repaired your clothes? Oh well, back to Walmart.
Sewing machines don't just output whatever they think you want to wear today lol
yeah, or cooking good point, that's very worrisome
A friend of mine wanted to make an incremental game. I told them "hey that's a pretty good project to learn programming with" but they insisted on using an LLM. Then they proudly showed me what they got so far, it was a decent looking singular html page, but without any game logic whatsoever. Most of the code was just stylesheets - and even those had some questionable things going on lol
It took me way too long to get what deskilling means
my best of is: Desk-illing, des-killing, or deskil-ling
it was likely a typo for desk-killing
inevitable syntax ambiguity aside, "deskill-ling" would be a good term for someone who has been de-skilled
I don't get the concern trolling? If it's so bad, use it, if you don't want to, don't. It seems to me like usual it cannot handle context for long enough to build anything useful, and when you do it becomes extremely over architectured. But others losing their coding skills because they are lazy? I don't know if that's even a problem. Those that want to learn learn. Those who do not, will never code. In the future they can pay for the privilege apparently. I don't see it as a problem. It will only be more useful to actually know how to code. Exponentially. I would never build something lasting on a framework built like this though and would love if we could distinguish generated libraries easily to avoid vulnerabilities and maintainability issues
I'm glad my expertise is in the humanities 😊