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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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[–] frezik@midwest.social 54 points 2 weeks ago (35 children)

The general comments that Ben received were that experienced developers can use AI for coding with positive results because they know what they’re doing. But AI coding gives awful results when it’s used by an inexperienced developer. Which is what we knew already.

That should be a big warning sign that the next generation of developers are not going to be very good. If they're waist deep in AI slop, they're only going to learn how to deal with AI slop.

As a non-programmer, I have zero understanding of the code and the analysis and fully rely on AI and even reviewed that AI analysis with a different AI to get the best possible solution (which was not good enough in this case).

What I'm feeling after reading that must be what artists feel like when AI slop proponents tell them "we're making art accessible".

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Art is already accessible. Plenty of artists that sells their art dirt cheap, or you can buy pen and papers at the dollar store.

What people want when they say "AI is making art accessible" is they want high quality professional art for dirt cheap.

[–] Schadrach -4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What people want when they say “AI is making art accessible” is they want high quality professional art for dirt cheap.

...and what their opposition means when they oppose it is "this line of work was supposed to be totally immune to automation, and I'm mad that it turns out not to be."

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

There is already a lot of automation out there, and more is better, when used correctly. And that's not talking about the outright theft of the material from these artists it is trying to replace so badly.

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