If so, I’d like to know about that questions:

  • Do you use an code autocomplete AI or type in a chat?
  • Do you consider environment damage that use of AIs can cause?
  • What type of AI do you use?
  • Usually, what do you ask AIs to do?
  • verdi@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

    Yes because I can’t program.

    I ask it to construct small blocks like if or for loop statements with a very verbose prompt so that all variables are properly named and the code block is small enough I can debug myself.

    Basically is like building lego where the AI prints every piece.

    1. It’s much more time consuming than if I knew the language myself but it’s actually a fun way to learn and it’s faster than wading through forums for n amount of time.
    2. I don’t get paid to do it, so I don’t see it as problematic, my biggest gripe is I used to cite the stack overflow, etc, user where I got the snippet of code before and now I can’t give credit to the original author.
    3. It’s useful since it has allowed me to automate a lot of tedious tasks that would otherwise be more time consuming, making the activation energy necessary to create the automation much lower.
    4. I use mistral exclusively, the GPT 4, 4o and 5 are quite useless in comparison. The latest mistral and codestral tower above them in my anecdotal experience, at least the way I use it.
    5. It works well with local models so I don’t have to feed the beast.
    6. I’m an illiterate idiot when it comes to python so it has resulted in someone being able to do something they otherwise couldn’t.
    7. I’m not a programmer, AI hasn’t made me a programmer, If I were a programmer, the code completion is so slow I’d probably not use it, I’m unaware of other uses other than debugging, but even for its own code, debugging is hit or miss, miss, miss because of limited context, it really can’t debug well.
    8. It’s definitely not worth how many trillions are being poured into it. Especially when one uses it more and becomes painfully aware of the limitations, it becomes quite obvious that the applications lie in increasing industrial and scientific productivity rather than creating a mass market tool.
    9. Agentic AIs are pure cancer and a security catastrophe waiting to happen. The ease with which one can use prompt injection to exfiltrate basically any kind of data the agent has access to is probably keeping many a cyber security experts awake at night. I envision, ironically, black hat being invaded by “prompt engineers” specialized in creating injection prompts.

    Thank you for coming to my ted talk.