A man who created a Bank explains the limits of AI.
“A.I. excels at pattern recognition, code generation and the synthesis of large volumes of text and data. But someone still has to decide whether an analysis is trustworthy, what implications it carries and whether acting on it would be wise.”
AI excels at code generation?
I mean, it excels at generating stuff, but whether the things it generates are bullshit or not is another story.
It does.
Especially at code snippets, like one would find on stack overflow.
It’s not perfect. And if you let it generate spaghetti code, you have no hope of fixing it.
But if you force it to write clean, object oriented methods, it can be quite useful. Slightly more useful than searching for stack overflow threads directly.
It works, except that it doesn’t, but then it’s because you’re prompting it wrong.
A classic, by this point.
I was thinking more along the lines of copy pasting individual methods.
A different prompt might in theory do it, but I don’t trust the AI not to mess up my entire codebase just because I ask it to change a few lines
I mean…. I guess. Ive had it give me extremely small bits of code that were passable I suppose. But it was Jo faster than just searching and thinking. Occasionally it’s nice to get commands for utilities you aren’t super familiar with.
That said, even a basic function needs fixing and cleaning up, though like you said, I’m not spending any real time on ‘prompt engineering’