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The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (www.ivanturkovic.com)
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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

  • Take a human and have him study every single repo on GitHub

  • Take an AI and train it on every single repo on Github

Which of those two will continue to make novice mistakes like SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities?

These AI "coding agents" aren't learning or thinking. They're just natural language statistical search engines, and as such it's easy to anthropomorphize them. Future generations will laugh at us, kinda like how we laugh at old products that contain cocaine, asbestos, lead, uranium, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I never said they were intelligent. But by definition they are learning and it is not conceptually different from how we learn.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    But by definition they are learning and it is not conceptually different from how we learn.

    (citation needed)

    "Machine learning" is neither mechanically nor conceptually similar to how humans learn, unless you take a uselessly broad view and define it as "thing goes in, thing comes out". The same could be applied to a simple CRUD app.

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