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by onion2k 1177 days ago
AI is confidently wrong about a lot of things, but that doesn't mean it's useless. It means you need to verify what it generates. Doing that for code is much easier than prose. AI that produces wrong code is immediately and obviously wrong. It can't really fool you. It's easy to test. You can even ask AI to write tests for the code it produces to demonstrate it's correct.
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Tests help but tests can be wrong as well, if this was all so easy we wouldn't have any bugs.
Just because it is making obvious errors doesn’t mean it isn’t also making subtle errors.