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

[Vladimir Marchevsky]

On Monday, 23 September 2024 at 08:46:30 UTC, aberba wrote:
>
> You would be surprised how much original code and code 
> modifications LLMs can output. I wouldn't be to quick to 
> dismiss them as mere translation tools.
>
> For example, take a look at the intro video on the Zed homepage 
> to see what can be achieved with AI assisted coding 
> (https://zed.dev/)

I've seen that. My point is: while AI sometimes **can** really 
look great doing something, people should always keep in mind 
it's just a complex math intended to generate specific patterns. 
It's not intelligent, it doesn't really understand any context, 
neither it understands anything it outputs. Image generation is a 
great example: there are lot of nice images done by AI but there 
are also tons of garbage produced - with wrong limbs, distorted 
faces, etc, etc. General-use ChatGPT answers with lots of text 
meaning barely anything or swapping topics is another great 
example. And while you sometimes can be fine with some small 
mistakes in image, coding has no room for that.

So, my personal opinion: AI can be great in generating some 
repetitive or well-defined code to do some typing instead of 
human, but it still needs a good programmer to ensure all results 
are correct.