| ▲ | cryptonector 5 hours ago |
| AI is definitely creating working software. It's also leading people to submit hallucinations as security vulns in open source. I've had to deal with some of them. |
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| ▲ | lmm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Define "working". It's creating software that does what someone wanted some of the time, sure. |
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| ▲ | teiferer 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Look around you. Our industry has cultivated that this kind of software is everywhere. | | |
| ▲ | bandrami 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's... really just not, though | | |
| ▲ | teiferer 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | There are isolated islands of reliable, high quality, low bug, well maintained software. The rest is crap. |
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| ▲ | bandrami 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Nah, if that were true there would be a lot more new software available. What's it working at is making developers feel busy, which is itself a worthwhile task. |
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| ▲ | rascul 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe it's available but you don't realize it. | | | |
| ▲ | dboreham 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There may be some other limiting factors on the rate of generation of new useful software. E.g. money to market it, humans to specify it, perhaps there's enough software already... | | |
| ▲ | bandrami 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | If there's enough software already than LLMs are the worst-timed invention in human history... |
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