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by cratermoon 487 days ago
I've been following developments since OpenAI's 2020 announcement with exactly this in mind. My intent is to understand

- how these tools are being hyped for programming

- the kinds of things inexperienced or poor programmers are using the tools for

- the errors and failure modes typically resulting from naive usage or misuse

- mitigation strategies derived from well-known techniques of dealing with legacy systems, applied to the particulars of AI-generated code and systems.