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Bleeding edge tech (lemmy.world)
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[–] 123 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm guessing he's saying companies are still using the same human written code, but since AI is sexy right now and is being used to describe even simple programming logic, everything is "powered by AI"

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And in 2013 the key word for marketing was algorithm. The YouTube algorithm. The reddit algorithm. Etc.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even more likely is that AI’s that write code are trained on human created code. So they aren’t coming up with new, novel ideas to problems in most cases, they are just a far more advanced “copy and paste from StackOverflow”

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “copy and paste from StackOverflow”

    I feel violated

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Hey just remember the classic Quora answer:

    https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-hire-a-software-engineer-if-I-can-just-copy-and-paste-code-from-Stack-Overflow

    They are paying $100,000. $1 to copy and paste code from stack overflow, and $99,999 to know where and when to paste the code and how to make it work.

    Domain knowledge is real, and AI might level that up, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a junior engineer armed with the same tools as a senior engineer that gets dropped into a gig and can properly utilize AI or even StackOverflow to be on the same playing field. AI can write me a function. But to figure how broken a legacy codebase is and how that function can solve an issue is why engineers are still valuable…for now

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've heard this talk where I work. Senior plebs describing things that are obviously algorithms as AI. And this of course means we had AI before it was cool.

    Nothing new here. Buzzwords are the only thing senior managers can understand.

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