alt Hacker NewsYou're comment history suggests a pro-AI bias on par with AI companies. I don't understand it. It seems like critical thinking, nuance, and just basic caution have been turned off like a light-switch for far too many people.
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My operating assumption, for everyone acting the way you described, is that it's predicated on the belief of "I have an opportunity to make money from this." It is exceedingly rare to find an instance of someone using the tech purely for the love of the game who isn't also tying it back to income generation in some way.
Our industry never exhibited an abundance of caution, but if you have trouble understanding the value of AI here, consider that you are akin to an assembly language programmer in the 1970s or 80s who couldn't understand why people are so gung-ho about these compilers that just output worse code than they could write by hand. In retrospect, compilers only got better and better, and familiarity with programming languages and compilation toolchains became a valuable productivity skill and the market for assembly language programming either stagnated, or shrank.
Doesn't it seem plausible to you that, whatever the ratio of bugs in AI-generated code today, that bug count is only going to really go down? Doesn't it then seem reasonable to say that programmers should start familiarizing themselves with these new tools, where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them?
it's called a love of money
> It seems like critical thinking, nuance, and just basic caution have been turned off like a light-switch for far too many people.
Ironically, this response contains no critical thinking or nuance.