| ▲ | cdelsolar 10 hours ago | |
What are you talking about? I have multiple open-source projects where I've generated multiple PRs with 90+% AI tools. I don't care that the code isn't as good, because I have people using these features and the features work. 1) https://github.com/domino14/Webolith/pull/523/files (Yes, the CSS file sucks. I tried multiple times to add dark mode to this legacy app and I wasn't able to. This works, and is fine, and people are using it, and I'm not going to touch it again for a while) 2) https://github.com/domino14/macondo/pull/399 - A neural net for playing Scrabble. Has not been done before, in at least an open-source way, and this is a full-fledged CNN built using techniques from Alpha Zero, and almost entirely generated by ChatGPT o3. I have no idea how to do it myself. I've gotten the net to win 52.6% of its games against a purely static bot, which is a big edge (trust me) and it will continue to increase as I train it on better data. And that is before I use it as an actual evaluator for a Monte Carlo bot. I would _never_ have been able to put this together in 1-2 weeks when I am still working during the day. I would have had to take NN classes / read books / try many different network topologies and probably fail and give up. Would have taken months of full-time work. 3) https://github.com/woogles-io/liwords/pull/1498/files - simple, but one of many bug fixes that was diagnosed and fixed largely by an AI model. | ||
| ▲ | ModernMech 7 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I think this is what the original poster means. The value proposition isn't "As a developer, AI will allow you to unlock powers you didn't have before and make your life easier". They're selling it as "AI can do you job." We are being sold this idea that AI is able to replace developers, wholesale. But where are the examples? Seemingly, every example proffered is "Here's my personal project that I've been building with AI code assistants". But where are the projects built by AI developers (i.e. not people developers)? If AI was as good as they say, there should be some evidence of AI being able to build projects like this. | ||