🤔I got asked about this yesterday from a neighbor, a teacher in our local school district.
Teacher: "Isn't AI 4 to 5 times faster/better at coding than the best developers?"
Me: "Isn't AI 4 to 5 times faster/better at teaching than the best teachers?”
(shocked/disgusted look on her face)
🤷 And that's one of the problems of AI. It seems better than you at something you know nothing about because you don't quite know well enough to call it out on its bullshit. https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112031199817039932
@webology As a tech person who does a ton of coding daily, I can confidently say that every single time I tried to accelerate my work through the use of AI, it backfired spectacularly, resulting in nonworking, buggy, insecure code that I had to spend a ton of time cleaning up and rebuilding. AI does, however, do a great job acting like it knows what it’s talking about better than anyone, just like a lot of real people I know.
@EugeneTeplitsky @webology Yeah, it seems useful for filling in boilerplate or recalling idioms, which seems like it could make us quite a bit more productive. But anything interesting it writes is going to need a fine-tooth comb, for sure.
I wonder where this 4–5x thing comes from? It's like 1000x faster for things it *can* do, which isn't much.
