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by dgfitz 298 days ago
s/confidently//

Because “ai” is fallible, right now it is at best a very powerful search engine that can also muck around in (mostly JavaScript) codebases. It also makes mistakes in code, adds cruft, and gives incorrect responses to “research-type” questions. It can usually point you in the right direction, which is cool, but Google was able to do that before its enshittification.

s/AI/LLMs

The part where people call it AI is one of the greatest marketing tricks of the 2020s.