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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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[–] obviouspornalt@fedinsfw.app 7 points 9 hours ago (13 children)

if it's broken in a way that can't be detected, is it actually broken?

all software is broken in some way. if the rate of bugs generated by llm and the severity of those bugs drops below the rate you would expect from a human programming team, then llm is offering something competitive.

[–] refalo@programming.dev -4 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

This. They're trained on human data, and people can't seem to grasp that they act with roughly similar truthiness as actual humans. Humans often make just as many mistakes.

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 6 points 7 hours ago

No, humans make less mistakes. Less. That's the key here, statistical models are trained on human data so by pure logic can never, ever, under any circuimstance, reach 100% accuracy. With current understanding of LLMs with a focus on AI Scaling Laws, and more importantly of natural human language adaptation, they will never reach 94% accuracy with infinite power and infinite training. That's what the curve shows us in OpenAI's 2020 research paper on AI Scaling Laws and later Deepmind's paper correcting their math, that the diminishing returns will hit a limit far before convergence.

In addition to that, the AI also cannot detect subtle changes to established problems or any new unaccounted for variables, because they're a statistical model and not capable of actual thought. They also lack any sense of responsibility for their actions for the same reason.

You fucking sloppers always try to say "HuMAnS mAkE misTAKeS, TOO!" Yeah and the fucking slopbots are trained on those mistakes and make them again but worse.

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