Hi

I'm confronted with a young developer who is producing a lot of blog posts concerning Perl with plenty of speculative, untested and broken code.

I can't tell yet if it's genuinely from him° or if he just ran it through ChatGPT.

But the amount is staggering and it looks believable at first glance. One needs to know Perl to spot the nonsense.

I don't wanna sound an alarm, but this could be the beginning of a trend to flood the net with "AI" wisdom.

meta meditation

The next step in this arms race might be to use machine learning to test if code really does what it should.

And this feedback loop might really lead to a more useful AI coding.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) he seems to be from one of those offshore places with a different education system

In reply to How to deal with bad blog posts? by LanX

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