Subj : Re: market change due to
To   : Arelor
From : Dr. What
Date : Sun Sep 14 2025 09:43:00

-=> Arelor wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ar> Which is why I think AI as it is today is a bit overhyped. It feels
 Ar> like a faster Stackoverflow.

That's about where I am with it.  But it's a faster Stack Overflow, with less
accuracy.

One of the problems that I've seen with the AIs I've dealt with is what I call
the "Yes, we have no bananas" problem.  The AIs don't want to say "I don't
know", and really, I don't think that they can.  So they often make up
something that's plausable, but completely wrong.

Lately we had a discussion with the person in our company pushing for AIs for
developers (who is not a real developer - go fig).  He said that AIs can write
our unit tests for us from the code we wrote.

We had to point out:
1. We usually don't write out unit tests that way (sort of a
test-driven-design-lite process).
2. Unit tests are supposed to test how the code is SUPPOSED to work.  If an AI
writes unit tests from code, it will write unit tests on how the code actually
works.  I don't know about others, but I don't write 100% correct code on the
first rev.


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