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Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code (lemmy.ml)
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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 77 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

God, imagine debugging 250,000 lines of code to find some bug the AI created.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You expect those 250k lines to be comprehensible? In my experience they'll be an utter clusterfuck.

You can't fix the airplane if it turns out to be a boat with legs, 2 holes (worked around with 5 pumps) and 3.5 enormous ears tagged "wings".

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

a boat with legs, 2 holes (worked around with 5 pumps) and 3.5 enormous ears tagged “wings”

[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems that AI really is good for some things after all

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I find the kind of absurd fever-dream images it conjures to be very entertaining. I try to put as many contradictory concepts into various generators to see what it comes up with.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

You expect those 250k lines to be comprehensible? In my experience they'll be an utter clusterfuck.

Even worse is if they're completely plausible, but there's a very subtle logic bug in there that is super hard to spot because of just how plausible everything is.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 22 points 4 weeks ago

One of a bajillion bugs.