On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 12:17 +1000, Peter Kirkham wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong and I'm just a modern-day Luddite.
No, you are not. It CAN be extremely useful WHEN you know exactly what you want and are an expert in your topic. THEN you can use the AI generated template and quickly tweak it until it works. Like a secretary. This is great when you don't know the API or programming language. For example, this dynamic TOC side bar was done by ChatGPT within 30 iterations: https://manticore-projects.com/JSQLFormatter/javadoc.html - - it was great because I don't write JavaScript code or Website stuff. But when you don't know the solution and can't validate the outcome, then stay away from AI. My former example "RGBA ByteSwapping" brought up useful AVX/SSE methods, but filled the bytes completely wrong -- and kept filling it wrongly continuously. This is worse than "phantom libraries", which don't exist because it appears to be working but produces wrong, potentially dangerous results. Its a tool, SELECTIVELY useful for the right purpose and harmful otherwise. Smart people will become smarter and faster using it. Others won't. Cheers Andreas
