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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code written by AI
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 15:51:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 11:15:44 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wibbled:
>Am 01.05.2025 um 11:39 schrieb Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org:
>
>> Indeed. Boiler plate code interface or GUI code isn't an issue even for 4GL
>> tools, the actual program logic is another matter. To tell an AI the fine
>> details of what you want the program to do you'd need to write such a
>> comprehensive spec you might just as well right the code yourself anyway.
>
>However, code generators aren't needed for boilerplate code because
>this code is trivial anyway. However, I've presented my code to ChatGPT
>several times, and ChatGPT claimed to simplify it, but the ssimplifica-
>tions contained errors. I mean, if an AI is already so overwhelmed with
>less than 100 lines of code, things can only get worse with more complex
>code.

My experience with it writing code isn't great either though it seems better
with plain C rather than C++.

However my young daughter tried to get chatgpt to explain some basic science to
her. It got archimedes principal the wrong way around saying things float
better in less dense liquids. After that I told her not to bother asking it
anything and to use google instead.