On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 at 11:42, Andreas Reichel < andr...@manticore-projects.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-02-11 at 09:50 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 at 13:46, Andreas Reichel < > andr...@manticore-projects.com> wrote: > > Smart people will become smarter and faster using it. Others won't. > > > What do you mean when you say this? > > > What I meant was: it amplifies experience and skills. If you are > experienced it will make you faster because you know when to trust and use > it. If you are inexperienced it will harm you because it can pretend > providing "solutions", which actually may be harmful or wrong. > Yes, I understand that perhaps it does help one who is already experienced leverage off the experience of others to quickly come to an optimal solution to a particular problem. Perhaps I would agree to using an AI that makes suggestions without "learning" from the code it is being exposed to. > > > I think I would surely benefit from some assistance too, but I am afraid > that an AI algorithm may suggest what it found in my code to a wider > developer community, thus leaking my own work to a wider world out of my > control. > > > That is a different and very valid and interesting angle to look at it: > what guarantees are there when its integrated into your UI, which opens ALL > your code? None and nothing! They just will say "sorry" when eventually > caught and that's it. > I would recommend Netbeans think about this scenario. I believe that the point I make in this reply above about preventing the AI from being trained on the code it is exposed to in a particular user's IDE would be considered valuable to many. > I would say, when you believed in proprietary code then IDE AI integration > was not for you even when it worked. > I'm not averse to publishing my code and being attributed for it - that's why I do this. Hence, I would be flattered if I saw snippets of my published code being suggested back to me by an AI, but I wouldn't be as happy if I saw unpublished work appearing. I will steer clear of an AI looking at the code in my IDE for now and wait a while perhaps until this AI stuff matures; let others make the mistakes that I hopefully avoid. :) > Although the same concern applies to GitHub already. So unless you host by > yourself strictly (as we do, except for what we publish as OpenSource) this > concern should not be new. > Just as well because I have no code in GitHub. Owen. > Clique Space(TM). Anima ex machina. Find out more on cliquespace.net.
