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AI solves every river crossing puzzle, we can go home now [content warning: botshit] (gemini.google.com)
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I think this summarizes in one conversation what is so fucking irritating about this thing: I am supposed to believe that it wrote that code.

No siree, no RAG, no trickery with training a model to transform the code while maintaining identical expression graph, it just goes from word-salading all over the place on a natural language task, to outputting 100 lines of coherent code.

Although that does suggest a new dunk on computer touchers, of the AI enthusiast kind, you can point at that and say that coding clearly does not require any logical reasoning.

(Also, as usual with AI it is not always that good. sometimes it fucks up the code, too).

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Although that does suggest a new dunk on computer touchers, of the AI enthusiast kind, you can point at that and say that coding clearly does not require any logical reasoning.

Considering how many actual programmers fell for botshit and autoplag, it probably never did. That's probably being a bit harsh, but I feel this bubble's shown that your ability to puke out computational word salad does not translate into having any sort of useful skill.

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

At the very least, many of them were probably unable to differentiate between "coding problems that have been solved a million times and are therefore in the training data" and "coding problems that are specific to a particular situation". I'm not a software developer myself, but that's my best guess.