• ZDL@lazysoci.al
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    1 day ago

    I’m always seeing this claim:

    AI can code better than most humans.

    Yet literally every formal study on this says exactly the opposite.

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      23 hours ago

      You don’t even need to be an experienced developer to see how bad AI created code is. AI just hallucinates too much. I tried asking ChatGPT to write a fairly simple shell script script for me a few times and it added non-existent commands or references EACH times.

      Honestly I think AI has other fields of application. It’s good when you do something yourself but need an approximation about something. However trying to replace humans with it is just a sign of misunderstanding of the technology. AI shouldn’t be called Artificial Intelligence in the first place (damn good marketing tho). It’s more like a way of automating statistics.

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        7 minutes ago

        All coding, bad or good, looks like gibberish to me, so I have no means of judging LLM output in it.

        Except by results.

        And that’s where those formal studies come in: the results are catastrophically bad.

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      1 day ago

      Most humans can’t code though, so I think this is technically true (and a weird flex). No way is AI better than human coders.