I didn't want to influence the discussion with my thoughts, and I thank the monks for sharing their thoughts.
My observations are that AI is pretty good at analysis, really not that good at writing code. And by writing code, I mean
- A good description of how it's going to solve the problem;
- A well structured piece of code that actually solves the problem; and
- Comments in the code that explain each ste.
If you get back a bunch of code that's a mess, a mish-mish of things that were found on the net, without any comments, that's not worth much.
And I think 'vibe coding' is a joke. I'd like to see a demo of an AI being told to write some code, and actually have it produce something that a) works properly, and b) produces readable, useful code.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.
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