The thing about this metaphor that people don't seem to ever complete is.

Okay, you've switched to English. The speed of typing the actual tokens is just about the same but...

The standard library is FUCKING HUGE!

Every concept that you have ever read about? Every professional term, every weird thing that gestures at a whole chunk of complexity/functionality ... Now, if I say something to my LLM like:

> Consider the dimensional twins problem -- how're we gonna differentiate torque from energy here?

I'm able to ... "from physics import Torque, Energy, dimensional_analysis" And that part of the stdlib was written in 1922 by Bridgman!

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JoshTriplett 2 days ago | parent [-]

> The standard library is FUCKING HUGE!

And extremely buggy, and impossible to debug, and does not accept or fix bug reports.

AI is like an extremely enthusiastic junior engineer that never learns or improves in any way based on your feedback.

I love working with junior engineers. One of the best parts about working with junior engineers is that they learn and become progressively more experienced as time goes on. AI doesn't.

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integralid 2 days ago | parent [-]

People need to decide if their counter to AI making programmers obsolete is "current generation AI is buggy, and this will not improve until I retire" or "I only spend coding 5% of my time so it doesn't matter if AI can instantly replace my coding".

And come on: AI definitely will become better as time goes on.

	▲	JoshTriplett 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It gets better when the AI provider trains a new model. It doesn't learn from the feedback of the person interacting with it, unlike a human.