Experienced software developer, here. "AI" is useful to me in some contexts. Specifically when I want to scaffold out a completely new application (so I'm not worried about clobbering existing code) and I don't want to do it by hand, it saves me time.
And... that's about it. It sucks at code review, and will break shit in your repo if you let it.
"Scientists"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Correction: Everything I don't like gets threatened with a tariff. Remember, he always chickens out with this shit.
She'll be able to wear that sanction as a badge of honor.
Yep. But it's important to remember that Republicans are utterly incapable of feeling shame. They can't do it. They know they're hypocrites of the highest order and do not care. For them, the ends justify literally any means, even if that includes utter betrayal of every moral precept they claim to hold dear.
Yes, the Bible says explicitly not to bear false witness. No, it's not effective to point that out to supposed conservative Christians who happily lie and flip-flop on every single damn topic if they think it'll give Republicans more power.
It's true, although the smart companies aren't laying off workers in the first place, because they're treating AI as a tool to enhance their productivity rather than a tool to replace them.
The fact that he ever had an approval rating with Gen Z is mind-boggling.
But if he didn't create problems that he could pretend to solve through bluster and rambling incoherence, he'd have to actually work. A Trump never works.
The thing is, if they just pared those claims down a bit, they'd be accurate. Switch from "Copilot can build an entire application for you from scratch while giving you a blowjob" to "Copilot can help developers by automating some repetitive and time-consuming tasks," and you still have a good thing.
Weird. The cuts apparently include cancellation of several games that were planned and many of them will hit the Xbox division.
I would've thought that the increased productivity that Copilot theoretically gives developers would have resulted in the reduced staff still being able to finish those games.
The leopards started feasting, and he decided they weren't eating his face fast enough.
Like I said, I do find it useful at times. But not only shouldn't it replace coders, it fundamentally can't. At least, not without a fundamental rearchitecturing of how they work.
The reason it goes down a "really bad path" is that it's basically glorified autocomplete. It doesn't know anything.
On top of that, spoken and written language are very imprecise, and there's no way for an LLM to derive what you really wanted from context clues such as your tone of voice.
Take the phrase "fruit flies like a banana." Am I saying that a piece of fruit might fly in a manner akin to how another piece of fruit, a banana, flies if thrown? Or am I saying that the insect called the fruit fly might like to consume a banana?
It's a humorous line, but my point is serious: We unintentionally speak in ambiguous ways like that all the time. And while we've got brains that can interpret unspoken signals to parse intended meaning from a word or phrase, LLMs don't.