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Comment by rajangdavis

The more I use AI, the more I think about the book Fooled By Randomness.

AI can take you down a rabbit hole that makes you feel like you are being productive but the generated code can be a dead end because of how you framed the problem to the AI.

Engineers need enough discipline to understand the problems they are trying to solve before delegating a solution to a stochastic text generator.

I don’t always like using AI but have found it helpful in specific use cases such as speeding up CI test pipelines and writing spec; however, someone smarter than me/more familiar with the problem space may have better strategies that I cannot of think of, and I have been fooled by randomness.

parent rajangdavis 10 months ago

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