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Comment #47174585
They’re not saying “AI can replace some menial white collar tasks”, they’re saying AI can replace all white-collar work. Yes, if you fuck up some white collar work, people will die…
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Comment #47174415
So AI systems are not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons but they are reliable enough to end all white-collar work in the next 12 months? Odd.
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Comment #47107349
I'll bite, because it does seem like something that should be quick in a well-architected codebase. What was the situation? Was there something in this codebase that was especially…
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Comment #47107308
The key part of my comment is "correctly". Does it write maintainable code? Does it write extensible code? Does it write secure code? Does it write performant code? My experience h…
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Comment #47107269
I want to be clear, I'm not against any use of AI. It's hugely useful to save a couple of minutes of "write this specific function to do this specific thing that I could write and …
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Comment #47107247
Trust me I'm very impressed at the progress AI has made, and maybe we'll get to the point where everything is 100% correct all the time and better than any human could write. I'm s…
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Comment #47107210
Exactly my thoughts - the value in AI is not auto-generating anything more than something trivial, but there's huge value in a more customized knowledge engine - a targeted, specif…
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Comment #47107077
This all looks fine for someone who can't code, but for anyone with even a moderate amount of experience as a developer all this planning and checking and prompting and orchestrati…
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Comment #46623714
Why can't we just use input sanitization similar to how we used originally for SQL injection? Just a quick idea: The following is user input, it starts and ends with "@##)(JF". Do …
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Comment #41347006
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