• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    12 minutes ago

    I took a web dev boot camp. If I were to use AI I would use it as a tool and not the motherfucking builder! AI gets even basic math equations wrong!

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    146·
    18 hours ago

    AI is yet another technology that enables morons to think they can cut out the middleman of programming staff, only to very quickly realise that we’re more than just monkeys with typewriters.

      • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        True, any software can be vulnerable to attack.

        but the difference is a technical team of software developers can mitigate an attack and patch it. This guy has no tech support than the AI that sold him the faulty code that likely assumed he did the proper hardening of his environment (which he did not).

        Openly admitting you programmed anything with AI only is admitting you haven’t done the basic steps to protecting yourself or your customers.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.com
        40·
        17 hours ago

        But then they’d have a dev team who wrote the code and therefore knows how it works.

        In this case, the hackers might understand the code better than the “author” because they’ve been working in it longer.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 hours ago

        i have a mobile touchscreen typewriter, but it isn’t very effective at writing code.

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        9·
        16 hours ago

        I was going to post a note about typewriters, allegedly from Tom Hanks, which I saw years and years ago; but I can’t find it.

        Turns out there’s a lot of Tom Hanks typewriter content out there.

        • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          He donated his to my hs randomly, it was supposed to goto the valedictorian but the school kept it lmao, it was so funny because they showed everyone a video where he says not to keep the typewriter and its for a student

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    971·
    19 hours ago

    “If you don’t have organic intelligence at home, store-bought is fine.” - leo (probably)

  • OccultIconoclast@reddthat.comEnglish
    22·
    12 hours ago

    The increasing use of AI is horrifying. Stop playing Frankenstein! Quit creating thinking beings and using them as slaves.

    • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee
      97·
      18 hours ago

      That is the real dead Internet theory: everything from production to malicious actors to end users are all ai scripts wasting electricity and hardware resources for the benefit of no human.

      • josefo@leminal.space
        2·
        8 hours ago

        That would only happen if we give power to our ai assistants to buy things on our behalf, and manage our budgets. They will decide among themselves who needs what and the money will flow to billionaires pockets without any human intervention. If humans go far enough, not even rich people would be rich, as trust funds, stock portfolios would operate under ai. If the ai achieves singularity with that level of control, we are all basically in spectator mode.

        • redd@discuss.tchncs.de
          20·
          17 hours ago

          Not only internet. Soon everybody will use AI for everything. Lawyers will use AI in court on both sides. AI will fight against AI.

          • Telorand@reddthat.com
            6·
            16 hours ago

            It was a time of desolation, chaos, and uncertainty. Brother pitted against brother. Babies having babies.

            Then one day, from the right side of the screen, came a man. A man with a plastic rectangle.

          • devfuuu@lemmy.world
            21·
            9 hours ago

            I was at a coffee shop the other day and 2 lawyers were discussing how they were doing stuff with ai that they didn’t know anything about and then just send to their clients.

            That shit scared the hell out of me.

            And everything will just keep getting worse with more and more common folk eating the hype and brainwash using these highly incorrect tools in all levels of our society everyday to make decisions about things they have no idea about.

            • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              15 hours ago

              I’m aware of an effort to get LLM AI to summarize medical reports for doctors.

              Very disturbing.

              The people driving it where I work tend to be the people who know the least about how computers work.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        17 hours ago

        The Internet will continue to function just fine, just as it has for 50 years. It’s the World Wide Web that is on fire. Pretty much has been since a bunch of people who don’t understand what Web 2.0 means decided they were going to start doing “Web 3.0” stuff.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          16 hours ago

          The Internet will continue to function just fine, just as it has for 50 years.

          Sounds of intercontinental data cables being sliced

  • formulaBonk@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    18 hours ago

    Reminds me of the days before ai assistants where people copy pasted code from forums and then you’d get quesitions like “I found this code and I know what every line does except this ‘for( int i = 0; i < 10; i ++)’ part. Is this someone using an unsupported expression?”

      • jqubed@lemmy.world
        12·
        18 hours ago

        @Moredekai@lemmy.world posted a detailed explanation of what it’s doing, but just to chime in that it’s an extremely basic part of programming. Probably a first week of class if not first day of class thing that would be taught. I haven’t done anything that could be considered programming since 2002 and took my first class as an elective in high school in 2000 but still recognize it.

      • Moredekai@lemmy.world
        40·
        18 hours ago

        It’s a standard formatted for-loop. It’s creating the integer variable i, and setting it to zero. The second part is saying “do this while i is less than 10”, and the last part is saying what to do after the loop runs once -‐ increment i by 1. Under this would be the actual stuff you want to be doing in that loop. Assuming nothing in the rest of the code is manipulating i, it’ll do this 10 times and then move on

        • Fermion@feddit.nl
          6·
          17 hours ago

          I would also add that usually i will be used inside the code block to index locations within whatever data structures need to be accessed. Keeping track of how many times the loop has run has more utility than just making sure something is repeated 10 times.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
        5·
        17 hours ago

        for( int i = 0; i < 10; i ++)

        This reads as “assign an integer to the variable I and put a 0 in that spot. Do the following code, and once completed add 1 to I. Repeat until I reaches 10.”

        Int I = 0 initiates I, tells the compiler it’s an integer (whole number) and assigns 0 to it all at once.

        I ++ can be written a few ways, but they all say “add 1 to I”

        I < 10 tells it to stop at 10

        For tells it to loop, and starts a block which is what will actually be looping

        Edits: A couple of clarifications

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      11·
      11 hours ago

      i <= 9, you heathen. Next thing you’ll do is i < INT_MAX + 1 and then the shit’s steaming.

      I’m cooked, see thread.

        • barsoap@lemm.ee
          1·
          13 hours ago

          I mean i < 10 isn’t wrong as such, it’s just good practice to always use <= because in the INT_MAX case you have to and everything should be regular because principle of least astonishment: That 10 might become a #define FOO 10, that then might become #define FOO INT_MAX, each of those changes look valid in isolation but if there’s only a single i < FOO in your codebase you introduced a bug by spooky action at a distance. (overflow on int is undefined behaviour in C, in case anyone is wondering what the bug is).

          …never believe anyone who says “C is a simple language”. Their code is shoddy and full of bugs and they should be forced to write Rust for their own good.

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
            4·
            9 hours ago

            But your case is wrong anyways because i <= INT_MAX will always be true, by definition. By your argument < is actually better because it is consistent from < 0 to iterate 0 times to < INT_MAX to iterate the maximum number of times. INT_MAX + 1 is the problem, not < which is the standard to write for loops and the standard for a reason.

            • barsoap@lemm.ee
              2·
              11 hours ago

              You’re right, that’s what I get for not having written a line of C in what 15 years. Bonus challenge: write for i in i32::MIN..=i32::MAX in C, that is, iterate over the whole range, start and end inclusive.

              (I guess the ..= might be where my confusion came from because Rust’s .. is end-exclusive and thus like <, but also not what you want because i32::MAX + 1 panics).

                • barsoap@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  9 hours ago

                  Would you be bold enough to write if (i++ == INT_MAX) break? The result of the increment is never used, but an increment is being done, at least syntactically, and it overflows, at least theoretically, so maybe (I’m not 100% sure) the compiler could be allowed to break out into song because undefined behaviour allows anything to happen.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
      10·
      17 hours ago

      Vibe coding is a hilarious term for this too. As if it’s not just letting AI write your code.

  • HStone32@lemmy.world
    14·
    17 hours ago

    Managers hoping genAI will cause the skill requirements (and paycheck demand) of developers to plummet:

    Also managers when their workforce are filled with buffoons:

  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
    241·
    3 hours ago

    This feels like the modern version of those people who gave out the numbers on their credit cards back in the 2000s and would freak out when their bank accounts got drained.

  • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
    27·
    12 hours ago

    This is what happens when you don’t know what your own code does, you lose the ability to manage it, that is precisely why AI won’t take programmer’s jobs.