The AI Investment Boom | slacker news

> AI products are used ubiquitously to generate code, text, and images, analyze data, automate tasks, enhance online platforms, and much, much, much more—with usage expected only to increase going forward.

Why does every hype article start with this. Personally my copilot usage has gone down while coding. I tried and tried but it always gets lost and starts spitting out subtle bugs that takes me more time to debug than if i had written it myself.

I always have this feeling of 'this might fail in production in unknown ways' because i might have missed checking the code throughly . I know i am not the only one, my coworkers and friends have expressed similar feelings.

I even tried the new 'chain of thought' model, which for some reason seems to be even worse.

My feeling is (current) AI is more of a teacher than an implementor. It really does help when learning about something new or to give you ideas about directions to take. The actual code however still needs to be written by humans for the most part it seems.

AI is a great tool and does speed things up massively, it just doesn't align with the magical thought that we provide the ideas and AI does all of the grunt work. In general, always better to form mental models about things based on actual evidence as opposed to fantasy (and there is a lot of fantasy involved at the moment). This doesn't mean being pessimistic about potential future advancements however. It is just very hard to predict what the shape of those improvements will be.