Re: AI: a new hobby

On 01/06/2025 08:20, David Entwistle wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 03:38:12 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:
 

Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
setting it puzzles.

 I've recently been travelling and the hotel I stayed in at the airport
offered free copies of the New York Times. They had a article reporting
that large software-focused companies, Google, Microsoft and the like, are
now encouraging, or even requiring their developers to use AI tools to
write the code in order to meet productivity targets. The human developers
were left reviewing and testing largely AI-generated code.
 I can't help feeling there'll be some downside to that practice further to
the obvious demoralization of the existing staff.

The talented programmers will go elsewhere, with any luck, in which case there's no downside after all.
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