> And it’s poisoned with opinions from the internet.
This is the scary part. What current AI's are very effectively doing is surfacing the best solution (from a pre-existing blog/SO answer) that I might have been able to Google 10 years ago when search was "better" and there was less SEO slop on the internet - and pre-extract the relevant code for me (which is no minor thing).
But I repeatedly have been in situations where I ask for a feature and it brings in a new library and a bunch of extra code and only 2 weeks later as I get more familiar with that library do I realize that the "extra" code I didn't understand at first is part of a Hello World blog post on that framework and I suddenly understand that I have enabled interfaces and features on my business app that were meant for a toy example.
This is the scary part. What current AI's are very effectively doing is surfacing the best solution (from a pre-existing blog/SO answer) that I might have been able to Google 10 years ago when search was "better" and there was less SEO slop on the internet - and pre-extract the relevant code for me (which is no minor thing).
But I repeatedly have been in situations where I ask for a feature and it brings in a new library and a bunch of extra code and only 2 weeks later as I get more familiar with that library do I realize that the "extra" code I didn't understand at first is part of a Hello World blog post on that framework and I suddenly understand that I have enabled interfaces and features on my business app that were meant for a toy example.