Don't forget we are talking about a tool.
A good tool is easily documentable, and then usable with said documentation. A good tool has perfect repeatability It is easy to predict the outcome of using a good tool.
Current LLMs have neither. For all the user knows, it's a black box that takes input and poops out output. You can only steer the output after some output has already been given.
So it's not a "useful tool for coding" then, if the quality of the output depends of one's ability to articulate in a way that tickles the LLM "the right way".
Also, no matter how well you articulate, the output is still somewhat random. You can produce two different sections of code with (essentially) the same prompt, which also just means that theres an amount of luck and percieved randomness in a tool.
The fact that you have to "prompt-engineer" means that the tool has a terrible interface.
In your flaslight analogy, there's an on/off button that doesn't work. You have to flip the flashlight, tap it twice, check the batteries and flip it twice again. Then it turns on.
The fact that LLM coding tools are basically micro-managing with a special twist "knowing how to prompt", makes it a shit tool for a lot of people. And they are justified in thinking so.
You can't hone a skill you have little control over. It's like a hammer that strikes a random area within a certain radius of a nail.
Look, as long as the baby-shredder produces passable code, I'm all in.
We put asbestos back in the bag.
Saying that is defatism spread by useful idiots. "AI" is just software (which, hilariously, isn't even close to AI). It's not "here to stay", because it's not "here".
We had heat-seaking, radar, face/shape-recognition with computer vision for years. Current "AI" brings nothing to the table that couldn't be achieved earlier. Maybe a more intuitive human-computer interface, and even that is a dubious.
ML is different, and it has been "out of the bag" for a long time, but nobody batted an eye.
A lot of short kings don't have this issue.
If you're a taller dude, not only do you get backsplash on the floor, but on your legs as well.
You either have to piss straight into the water which is just an obnoxious sound, or you piss on the porcelain and get backsplash.
If you dont believe me, pour some water into a cup normally, and pour some water into a cup from 30cm higher.
Religious people are all nuts, just the degree varies a little bit.
Isolate the US from the rest of the world.
Came to say Devs aa well.
Glass = heavy. More transport pollution, more manufacturing pollution.
While glass is high in recyclability, all hinges on where it's coming from and where it's going (to be recycled).
Best container is the one you can bring from home.
Indeed. I agree that it's not a tool, but a type of outsourcing.