publicación cruzada desde: https://piefed.social/c/linux@programming.dev/p/2495581/yea

Linus be like:

  • “I only care about the final results and the correctness”
  • Me looks inside
  • Final results are shit and code is just slop

Ahhh, I love AI and Linus and how they’re enshittifying everything /s

Seriously, how would anyone in their right mind think that AI can be used responsibly? The only acceptable level of AI use is zero or a negative number.

  • deadalus@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    10 days ago

    Honestly, I think it can be helpful for beginners if used in moderation.

    I’m a complete beginner with programming, and yesterday was working on my home assistant to control both my AC and Radiator simultaneously. But I couldn’t get it to work, with the special climate entity always crashing. After i think 2 hours, I asked Gemini what was wrong, and it pointed out that I didn’t have a fallback value and that when starting up, the values were invalid, and caused the entity to crash. After I added a fallback, it worked.

    I think AI can be useful if you treat it like asking someone more experienced like a teacher. It will make mistakes, but if you’re stuck it might be able to help you. I’m still writing my code myself, but I use Gemini as a last resort when I’ve spend over an hour on a problem and can’t figure it out myself.

    Not that that applies to Linus, but I thought I’d also add some context from a beginner