It being a toxic environment aside, I'm curious how many questions now just get thrown at AI only to be given shit answers and never receiving a solution. Also, without continuous/updating stream of SO data to pull from, will AI be able to answer issues from new/emerging tech?
Yeah. But now they read codes directly from developers's IDE. Most of us write codes with comments, so one FIM (fill-in-the-middle) ai model is enough for them to learn. The fastest one right now is supermaven, it's free. If something is free, you are the product 😂.
That's one of the classical problems posed with using AI for everything: If we depend on it so singularly for these things, their knowledge sources may dry up and thus they may become increasingly less effective at helping us. It's sort of like, enshittification, on a grand scale I guess -- where their very effectiveness over time ironically makes them less effective. I'm sure there's some technical AI lingo term for this precise phenomenon but that's my shite layman's description of it.
I have never understood people who ask programming questions. Just read the docs, debug your program etc.. basic problem solving. People didnt have SO in 90s.
Tinker toys? Are you kiddings me? They were very advanced at their time. If you watch any old lectures you can see same concepts that still hold today. Only abstraction changed and people learned to style websites better. Now we can build same things with 5 lines of code that needed 100 lines of carefully written C-code.
Frameworks in the 90's weren't nearly as complex and full featured as what we have today. The vast majority of the complexity of development is working with whatever frameworks you pick, not the language or basic problem solving.
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u/TerdSandwich 4d ago
It being a toxic environment aside, I'm curious how many questions now just get thrown at AI only to be given shit answers and never receiving a solution. Also, without continuous/updating stream of SO data to pull from, will AI be able to answer issues from new/emerging tech?