Twice now I’ve experienced the fallout of bugs in my coworkers code and when I looked into it the bug was introduced by Copilot.
Think about that for a second.
I’m trying to accept that everyone I talk to at work about these systems (I won’t dignify them by using the term “intelligence”) ignores my warnings and treats me like a fool for refusing to use them, but now I have to clean up the mess others make by trusting these things.
This isn’t sustainable.
@requiem My hope is that we’ll see things settle down in the near future with people not blindly trusting LLMs so much. There’s a space for them being used to automate boilerplate, but I’ve seen way too many stupid errors and imagined APIs from Copilot to trust it.
@requiem It's vastly disappointing how many people (including here) misunderstand both the problems associated with AI and the capabilities of AI in of itself.
* The current capabilities of AI are over-hyped and over estimated. It's fancy pattern recognition. It is by no means intelligent.
* Corporations are abusing it to steal code, art, and thus get rid of jobs.
* AI output is error prone, and always worse than what a skilled human would produce, but bad quality has never stopped a corporation from cheaping out in order to profit.
It is a multiplier in the race to the bottom. Artists, writers, etc,... are all getting massively screwed by having derivatives of their work stolen while at the same time job offers for the more simpler tasks vanish. As if creative people needed another kick while down. And their customers are being screwed by getting worse products in the end.
We're not "scared" of AI because we think it might go skynet on us. It ain't that clever. It's problematic because it gives corporations another way to exploit us. On a massive scale.
And sorry, but "Should have reviewed the code" is a lame excuse. We all know it's harder and slower to properly and thoroughly review code than to write it from scratch, especially for the trivial stuff AI would be used for at this time.
By using AI you're feeding more data to the companies running them which they can assimilate into their models. By using the tools you are accelerating the problem and actively making the world worse.
There is just no reason and no excuse to use AI. Just don't.
