Generating Mandelbrot Sets are one of those vanilla tasks most hackers attempt when learning a programming language.

Like vocabulary trainer, hangman, Towers of Hanoi, a template system, (name it)

Point is, you'll find hundreds or even thousands of ready to use examples in the internet for training an LLM.

And LLMs are very good in replicating what already exists.

Trying to generate something more exotic will be much harder.

There is the story of an AI solving an Erdös problem, turned out that the solution was very similar to another Erdös problem.¹

So yes, AI is improving productivity, but I doubt it can replace the sentient designer who steers, understands and debugs the output.

And you already alluded to this by calling it "cargo cult" in the title.

Dumb programmers who need an IDE to write hello world might get into trouble at some point.

But experience shows that the IT industry has the tendency to create its own demand.

More generated code doesn't mean less programmers.

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

¹) https://theweeklythesis.substack.com/p/proof-profits-and-overconfidence

In reply to Re: The Cargo Cult Generation Has Arrived Now What? (Boilerplating++) by LanX
in thread The Cargo Cult Generation Has Arrived Now What? by Anonymous Monk

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