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by HolyLampshade 114 days ago
I think that's the issue I have with using these tools so far (definitely professionally, but even in pet projects for embedded systems). The mental load of having to go back through and make sure all of the lines of code do what the agent claims they do, even with tests, is significantly more than it would take to learn the implementation myself.

I can see the utility in creating very simple web-based tools where there's a monstrous wealth of public resources to build a model off of, but even the most recent models provided by Anthro, OpenAI, or MSFT seem prone to not quite perfection. And every time I find an error I'm left wondering what other bugs I'm not catching.

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What I tell my kids is: You know how when you ask AI about something you know very well, how its answers are always somewhat wrong? It's like that for things you do not know very well too.