In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
I’ve used AI plenty of times to help troubleshoot some weird error message. Sometimes just an old-fashioned Google just isn’t enough. There needs to be added context, which would just screw up the Google results.
I treat talking to AI for advice (in any category) roughly the same as asking an IRC channel…because that’s basically what it is. It’s taking in data from tons of sources and summarizing it.
Some of those sources might be legitimate and knowledgeable, some of them might be a negative-scored stack overflow comment.
If you have no domain-specific knowledge, you won’t know how to identify an issue in its response, and you shouldn’t be blindly copying code. Trust…but verify.
You know…this.
I’ve used AI plenty of times to help troubleshoot some weird error message. Sometimes just an old-fashioned Google just isn’t enough. There needs to be added context, which would just screw up the Google results.
I treat talking to AI for advice (in any category) roughly the same as asking an IRC channel…because that’s basically what it is. It’s taking in data from tons of sources and summarizing it.
Some of those sources might be legitimate and knowledgeable, some of them might be a negative-scored stack overflow comment.
If you have no domain-specific knowledge, you won’t know how to identify an issue in its response, and you shouldn’t be blindly copying code. Trust…but verify.