Tmux has AI generated code?

[epower53]

I'm not sure where one draws the line between convenience and self-indulgence.

I love this succinct phrasing of the problem - so many layers to that onion.

How much time am I willing to spend teaching myself how to solve the particular problem I'm faced with? I've gone both ways, diving down the rabbit hole and spending days/weeks, and for other problems asking for expert help or even (gasp) asking Claude. I have to say that AI hasn't been all that useful to me for solving real problems, and I've stopped asking except for the most trivial of questions.

Peel another layer - if you're doing something collaborative that will end up on other folks' machines, do you have any obligations to your "customers" regarding provenance of your work output? Even if you make disclaimers about your use of AI and include "take it or leave it" language in your license, I'm not so sure you've absolved yourself of the potential mess down the road when your code is co-opted by megacorps A, B, and C and used in systems that are decidedly anti-human.

I can only hope that sensible guardrails are put in place and enforced before something truly awful happens...

 

[scottro]

I'll give one small example. I had an nginx site that wasn't doing what I wanted. I went through the file and still couldn't figure it out. I debated asking here, but didn't. It's a 173 line file and whatever was wrong, I was missing it and unable to find the answer with a websearch. I asked---probably ChatGPT which I was using most at that time. It came back with the answer--the problem was that I was redirecting everything to https, but I had the stuff I wanted done in the first, http only section. I might not have figured it out, and apparently, people with similar problems had different solutions, none of which gave me a hint to what was going wrong. I wasn't even thinking in that direction for the issue. So, I'd rate that example a little above self-indulgence--but not much, I still should have been able to find the issue either with an online search, or perhaps irc.

The question, by the way, was why wasn't I able to password protect a directory in nginx. Once AI solves it for me, I put up my own page on how to do it.

 

[blackbird9]

The vim one is really depressing. I always use it in terminal mode, I guess they are talking about gvim, but still not exactly enthralling.

 

[blackbird9]

Let's hope the code is writes is better than how it handles elections.

ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date

www.theguardian.com

 

[LibreQuest]

Let's hope the code is writes is better than how it handles elections.

ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date

www.theguardian.com

I find this story to be humorous. The fact that such a large amount of users trust a program, of which they have no knowledge in it's functions, to provide them information. The amount of irrational trust in technology is astounding. This is great source material for psychological studies in human behavior and technology.

 

[astyle]

I find this story to be humorous. The fact that such a large amount of users trust a program, of which they have no knowledge in it's functions, to provide them information. The amount of irrational trust in technology is astounding. This is great source material for psychological studies in human behavior and technology.

No different from shamans chanting for rain...



Or, give your cat some milk, and if the cat's reaction is positive, you'll be rolling in good fortune soon enough.