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Judging by how many once-respectable expert developers I've seen start churning out high-velocity utter crud¹, I'm not sure that anyone has the capability to use it responsibility. (Except you, of course, dear reader.)

¹: Often correlating with a marked decline in the quality of their technical writing. I don't know which direction the arrow of causality goes, but I have observed LLM use inducing madness under reasonably-controlled circumstances – different phenomenon, similar principle. I suspect the use of AI codegen systems is causing the reduction in discernment ability, rather than a sudden drop in discernment ability causing increased use of AI codegen systems.

parent wizzwizz4 1 month ago

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