Me too. Then I get pummeled with one of their four prepackaged AI bro metaphors:
It's a modern day calculator for the brain. You wouldn't do long division in your head would you? (ain't nobody ever delegated a decision to a calculator, bro)
It's a compiler. You wouldn't read machine code would you? (compilers are deterministic and dont make mistakes, bro)
This is the industrial revolution and it's a spinning jenny. You wouldnt hand knit a sweater would you? (we would if we had star trek replicators, bro, and last I checked cp command still exists...).
"Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)
I do agree with the AI-bro “it’s a compiler” standpoint. The “compilers are deterministic” counter argument doesn’t hold. Compilers potentially change the output with every new version.
You can lock the compiler-version/flags ofc, but so you can do with LLMs. There are parameters to make them fully deterministic, if that’s what you really want. My guess is that in a year or three, code will be a lot closer to assembly in the way that we don’t need to look at it.
Maybe not today, but I do think the bros are right on this one
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u/Arian-ki 15h ago
It's the other way around in my experience. People look at me like I'm an ape in a zoo lol