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| Pemalite said: No thanks. I like my experience to be curated and high quality. |
Which isn't a criterium against AI. You can use AI and still curate the results and strive for high quality. Obviously - living i capitalism - most companies opt for low quality and cost reduction. With or without AI.
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Let me elaborate on this. You can have high quality printing done with care. I recently purchased "The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization" (not meant as advertisement, just an example), and this shows how high quality printing is indeed possible. But if we look at history, than for the most part the printing press lead to less high quality carefully made beatiful manuscripts, and lead to a lot of very low quality prints. This isn't a result of the abilities of printing technology. It is a result of societal incentive structure. Don't take this as a plea to return to pre-printing press technology, I just state things as they are.
Similarly you can still put the same amount of care into stuff, while using AI. I am a programmer, and if you use AI you can use it in a way that doesn't increase your code output, or not by much. But with the ability to explore more avenues, try more prototypes, solve more problems you can with proper care produce code in higher quality. But that said, if you want you can vibe code thousands of lines of code a day. Obviously nobody can check and quality control this much output. But you can and people do, and as this output is much more than any human can do I expect that vibe code will overtake human produced code in a matter of months — if it hasn't already happened.
As an example how bad such badly curated code can be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ2GZRV63TE
Stuff like this is funny. But to be real: for a lot of code it doesn't matter if it is bad. Some random website, simple tools for a company and so on. There is no real problem. While a programmer like me can laugh about stuff like Garry's list, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. And AI allows people that can't program and can't pay a coder to create something they need. Bad yes, but a bad thing is better than no thing often. So AI is empowering for non-coders. And people who care, can still create quality. The incentives of our society again are in the way. If programmers get paid to produce stuff, the incentive are on quick and cheap implementation, and AI improves these goals. So most commercial code will be soon be produced by or with help of AI with lower quality. But again, not a problem of the technology, a problem of society.
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About the amount of code produced, there are already quotes from famous programmers, that tackle this and were made, before AI made it possible to produce torrents of code.
“The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don’t have to write makes you a great one.” – Mario Fusco
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates
“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” – Ken Thompson
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