powerline-d (I got an AI to port powerline-shell to D)

[matheus]

On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 at 17:02:55 UTC, Vladimir 
Marchevsky wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 at 12:24:07 UTC, FeepingCreature 
> wrote:
>> Anyone who says large language models aren't *really* 
>> intelligent now has to argue that programming doesn't require 
>> intelligence.
>
> In case that really needs some arguing, I would say translation 
> is not a programming.

The other day I was watching a video from programmer (Jason 
Turner from C++) writing a raycasting[1], but for what it seems 
he didn't know the math behind the intersection between 
line-segments, so he decided to ask chatgpt to come with an 
answer based on attributes/properties he had already written and 
the AI generated a version based on this.

There was a problem with one sign in a expression and the 
raycasting was a mess, but on the other hand the programmer 
couldn't fix because he was just copying and pasting and de 
admittedly didn't know the math. He was only able to fix it when 
someone in chat pointed out the "sign problem".

I think the state of all that was sad, I mean people will not use 
their brain anymore? -  But on the other hand there is something 
going on since the AI was able to generate an algorithm based on 
specs given before hand in this specific language (Python), but I 
saw other videos with other languages too.

What I mean by all this, we are at the beginning of this trend 
but I can't imagine the outcome, I don't know for example if the 
case of this topic is a good or bad thing yet, but I keep 
wondering about what the new programmers coming in the future 
will face.

Finally I didn't want to derail the topic but the subject was 
already raised by the original poster,

[1] - (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0lSqedQau6w) you can change 
yewtu.be for the google one with ads if you wish.

Matheus.