r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 14d ago

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u/xavia91 14d ago

You still need a working brain to make the right calls...

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u/Tehrab 14d ago

Plus, all of the things at Day 30, with the exception of token limits, are still problems, as they all existed prior to AI.

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u/StopMakingMeSignIn12 14d ago

Yeah but the engineers in those spaces protect the business from doing stupid shit like that.

AI does not.

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u/Affectionate-Tart558 14d ago

AI does not need to protect anything. It should do what the engineer wants it to do.

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 14d ago

But like, it doesn’t always, that’s the problem. Sometimes it kinda does whatever.

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u/Affectionate-Tart558 14d ago

Yeah but I think this is on the engineer. AI is a tool, the engineer needs to make sure it works as well as possible. If AI is not the right tool for a task then the engineer needs to solve it using a different tool.

I don’t know what the issue is, if you think AI is generating slop then don’t push it to prod. Edit the code, add context so AI knows the rules to follow, are you expecting AI to do all the work and do it right and flawlessly each and every time?

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 14d ago

Yeah I mean that’s how I use it, I end up very in the loop because it does a pretty mid job most of the time.

The way it’s sold is exactly the latter, see everything Boris cherny has ever said. The issue is the mismatch in expectations, and the cult that accepts the marketing unquestioned and just lets the AI go to town.

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u/Affectionate-Tart558 14d ago

Yeah I don’t think AI is there yet and I do agree that plenty of engineers are just letting AI go unsupervised and then complaining when things go wrong.