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0 pointsbsder6d ago0 comments

Because the tool will happily give you a "solution" that kinda works for a few inputs. It will happily correct itself when you give it more incorrect tests.

It will almost never converge on the general solution that will pass tests you haven't given it yet.

This is why AI is sooo good at Javascript and related slop. A solution that "kinda works" is good enough 9 times out of 10 and if some tests fail well ... YOLO and the web page will probably render anyway.

Contrast that to using Scheme or Lisp where AI will have trouble simply keeping the parentheses balanced.

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FeepingCreature6d ago

To be fair, take away a human's paren highlighting and see how well they do.

dkersten6d ago

While I certainly like parentheses highlighting and rainbow parentheses, I've programmed Clojure without syntax highlighting and while it’s not as nice as it would be with, it’s fine.

I’ve also written C++ and Java in Notepad long ago. Not ideal, but hardly a problem.

hansmayer6d ago

Not everyone is a "coder" you know, some of us are engineers.

sampullman6d ago

You adjust pretty quickly. Taking away compiler error messages would be fun though.

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