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by tomohelix 976 days ago
>To a professional, those applications are toys, easily made and take little effort.

I acknowledged that much. Nothing the AI produce will be a masterpiece, but it is serviceable. The alternative is hiring a contractor or getting an intern and spend more money trying to get a slightly better result, in rare cases, might be worse. Not many places are willing to pay that extra cost.

> They don’t know how to code and thus cannot know if that code is correct.

A bit elitist there. These are still highly educated scientists. They might not know how to code, but to say they can't evaluate the output of the code is a bit much. You might not know how to edit the genes in a fish but you can tell if the fish is glowing or not, right?