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

[FeepingCreature]

On Tuesday, 24 September 2024 at 07:23:26 UTC, Vladimir 
Marchevsky wrote:
> 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

If somebody implemented intelligence as an algorithm, what form 
would you expect it to take *other* than "complex math generating 
specific patterns"?

> it doesn't really understand any context, neither it 
> understands anything it outputs.

You can disprove this to yourself by just talking to it. Have a 
chat, have it explain what it was going for. Doesn't always work 
reliably, but that there's *no* understanding there is easily 
disproven.

> 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.

It should be noted that the text models used by image generators 
are, by current-year standards, absolutely tiny. Like, GPT-2 
tier. It does not surprise me that they don't understand things, 
nor does it say anything about the chat models, which can be a 
hundred times or more bigger.

> 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.

As usual - make sure you're using GPT-4 not 3.5!

The question isn't "does it make mistakes", the question is "does 
it make more mistakes than I do." And in my experience, Sonnet 
makes *less.* His code compiles a lot more reliably than mine 
does!

> 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.

Well, that's the case anyways.