I invite you to partake in a MOOC requiring programming on any of the bigger platforms and have a look at the requests for help there. A sizeable chunk is from those not able to properly read the provided documentation but just asking ChatGPT to generate the solutions for them.
I invite you to partake in a MOOC requiring programming on any of the bigger platforms and have a look at the requests for help there. A sizeable chunk is from those not able to properly read the provided documentation but just asking ChatGPT to generate the solutions for them.
I admit I'm worried that AI is enabling children to cheat all the time now. And they will suffer for it.
Moocs I picture as adults trying to skill up. I'm not worried about them. A lot of them are simply not cut out for it, and they fail, which is sad but nothing new. Understanding code and reading technical docs is not so hard, but it's also not something everyone can do. If they lean on GPT until GPT fails, that doesn't really change anything.
Using AI tools (or any other types of tools) to write code is fine, as long as you understand what's going on. If you write code, and you don't know how it works, why it works, if it works, then you're not a coder--whether it works or not.
I keep getting the impression that today's generation of AI is much better suited for bedazzling than getting useful work done. I kind of want to see what the AI lawer is capable of right now.
But if the current crop of AI can help you as a professional programmer, you just might suck at your job, or your job just might be too trivial to exist.
I will say that type-ahead features of current coding assistants have saved me a lot of time just typing out variable names and the like. Maybe that's not "AI" strictly speaking, but stuff like this has been a help to me.
I will say that type-ahead features of current coding assistants have saved me a lot of time just typing out variable names and the like. Maybe that's not "AI" strictly speaking, but stuff like this has been a help to me.
