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From: David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz>
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Subject: Re: AI: a new hobby
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 07:20:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 31 May 2025 03:38:12 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:

> Firefox has decided to install ChatGPT on my system. At some point I
> will have to find out how inquisitive it is, but for now I've been
> setting it puzzles.

I've recently been travelling and the hotel I stayed in at the airport 
offered free copies of the New York Times. They had a article reporting 
that large software-focused companies, Google, Microsoft and the like, are 
now encouraging, or even requiring their developers to use AI tools to 
write the code in order to meet productivity targets. The human developers 
were left reviewing and testing largely AI-generated code.

I can't help feeling there'll be some downside to that practice further to 
the obvious demoralization of the existing staff.

-- 
David Entwistle