Gosh, this title said everything...
So good that I feel that it is not necessary to read the article!
AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
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Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe the exact opposite. We will see open source contributions skyrocket now. There are a ton of people who want to help and share their work, but technical ability was a major filter. If the barrier to entry is now lowered, expect to see many more people sharing stuff.
Yes, more people will be sharing stuff. And none of it will have long term staying power. Or do you honestly believe that a project like GCC or Linux would have been created and maintained over as long as they have been by the use of AI tools in the hands of noobs? Technical ability is an absolute requirement for the production of quality work. If the signal drowns in the noise then we are much worse off than where w…
I’m sure you know the majority of GCC and Linux contributors aren’t volunteers, but employees who are paid to contribute. I’m struggling to name a popular project that it isn’t the case. Can you?
If AI is powerful enough to flood open source projects with low quality code, it will be powerful enough to be used as gatekeeper. Major players who benefit from OSS, says Google, will make sure of that. We don’t know how it will play out. It’s shortsighted to dismiss it all together.
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
>writing code is a solved problem sure is news for the models tripping on my thousands of LOC jquery legacy app...
Could the LLM rewrite it from scratch?
boss, the models can't even get all the api endpoints from a single file and you want to rewrite everything?!
not to mention that maybe the stakeholders don't want a rewrite, they just to modernize the app and add some new features
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's true that they only give plausible sounding answers. But let's say we ask a simple question like "What's the sum of two and two?" The only plausible sounding answer to that will be "four." It doesn't need to have any fancy internal understanding or anything else beyond prediction to give what really is the same answer. The same goes for a lot of bugs in code. The best prediction is often the correct answer, bein…
It becomes important the moment your particular bug is on one hand typical, but has a non-typical reason. In such cases you'll get nonsense which you need to ignore. Again - they're very useful, as they give great answers based on someone else's knowledge and vague questions on part of the user, but one has to remain vigilant and keep in mind this is just text presented to you to look as believable as possible. There…
100% They're not infallible but that's a different argument to "they can't find bugs in your code."
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean the content of your clipboard?
I either accidentally pasted it somewhere and removed, forgetting about doing that or it's reading the clipboard. The suggestion it gave me started with the contents of the clipboard and expanded to scenario A.
Sorry to sound rude - but you polluted the context, pointing to the fact you would like A, and then found it annoying it tried to do A ?
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#396No, it's a power glove.
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That's not augmentation, that's a completely different game Not saying that this comment is ai written, but this phrasing is the em-dash of 2026.
True but also, the bot is right
Perhaps? The thing is, I don't come to HN comments to read what an LLM has to say. If that's what I wanted then I'd paste the contents of the article into one of them and ask.
What's the point of coming here for opinions of others in the field when we're met with something that wasn't even written by a human being?
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#398"It's not X, it's Y" detected.
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#399Petition to make "AI is not X, but Y" articles banned or limited in some way.
Hear, hear! I knew this is AI slop before opening the link.
Re: AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
#400You cant run at 10x in an exoskeleton, you can’t move your hand to write any faster using an exoskeleton, the analogy doesn’t fit.