• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
    62·
    2 days ago

    AI is a terrible way to learn something. It will do something wrong, explain it incorrectly, and you will have no idea.

    AI is only useful if you are able to spot and correct the mistakes it makes. Because it will make mistakes.

    Very effective teaching tools already exist if you want to learn.

      • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
        51·
        2 days ago

        Someone hasn’t done enough debugging in their life. I wish the lesson be as painless as possible

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
          01·
          1 day ago

          I’m definitely still a noob but I’ve done hundreds of hours of debugging on code in the past few months, and my job for the past 8 years is basically to troubleshoot issues, though the past year I got to start doing devops/code work on the side.

          Its fine though, I get why you guys are scared.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            23 hours ago

            Then you should know that code not working is the absolute easiest fuckup to catch. It’s literally not one to be concerned about.

            One in a million chance of an edge case that doesn’t throw an error at all, but does something unexpected? Good luck if you don’t know how the system works.

            • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              20 hours ago

              I do and please name a single human written program that doesn’t have a fuck up edge case that isn’t literally just hello world.

              Neither humans nor AI generally write flawless code

              • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                6 hours ago

                Neither humans nor AI write flawless code, but if you actually understand how your code works, you’ll have a significantly easier time finding that edge case, with or without AI.

                If you only ever let your AI do everything for you, you’re at its mercy for debugging.