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I would love it if companies/organizations actually evaluated AI properly.
I mean like this:
Tale three teams of developers, all equal size and experience, and give them all the same task, but set requirements like this:
Team 1: You guys go all in on AI, just go ham!
Team 2: You guys may use AI as a manual, you may not copypaste code from AI, you can't ask it to make what you want, but you can ask it for examples of how to do specific tasks.
Team 3: You can't use any AI, you can use Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go to find help, but you may not use any AI response.
Once the teams tasks are completed, and working, all of the versions of the code is pushed to test and is run for 3-4 months each to evaluate stability and ease of maintenance.
Once that is done each teams code is scored on an index of development time, stability, and ease of maintenance.
It would be interesting to see an accurate test between the different methods compared.
Management loves to shout how much time AI saves, but I have yet to see any evidence
You see, the ones running all this don't care about "AI" or how useful any technology is for that matter. They just want to get their hands on your money and they care little about what they have to say to achieve that goal.
I think this comes down to the usual capex vs opex situation. Anyone who has bought a car or a house is familiar with this problem. Should you buy something crazy expensive that costs much less to maintain? Should you buy something cheap that will drive you crazy and cost you a fortune in the long run?
I would expect that, companies prefer to spend 5 hours on making a whole bunch of code that will require 1000 hours of maintenance within the next 2 years. At least thatβs the exact philosophy I followed when buying my first cars.