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serbuvlad ◴[] No.45054479[source]
I think the whole AI vs non. AI debate is a bit besides the point. Engineers are stuck in the old paradigm of "perfect" algorithms.

I think the image you post at the beginning basically sums it up for me: ChatGPT o3/5 Thinking can one-shot 75% of most reasonably sized tasks I give it without breaking a sweat, but struggles with tweaks to get it to 100%. So I make those tweaks myself and I have cut my code writing task in half or one third of the time.

ChatGPT also knows more idioms and useful libraries than I do so I generally end up with cleaner code this way.

Ferrari's are still hand assembled but Ford's assembly line and machines help save up human labor even if the quality of a mass-produced item is less than a hand-crafted one. But if everything was hand-crafted, we would have no computers at all to program.

Programming and writing will become niche and humans will still be used where a quality higher than what AI can produce is needed. But most code will be done by minotaur human-ai teams, where the human has a minimal but necessary contribution to keep the AI on track... I mean, it already is.

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1. bcrosby95 ◴[] No.45055563[source]
The analogy seems to fall apart because the quality of an assembly line produced car is higher than the hand crafted one. Fords lose out because they engineer to a price point, a Ferrari doesn't have that "problem" - arguably, the more expensive the better.
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2. vonneumannstan ◴[] No.45055796[source]
>The analogy falls apart because the quality of an assembly line produced car is higher than the hand crafted one.

What? So Your Jeep Compass is higher quality than a 458?

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3. jazzyjackson ◴[] No.45059010[source]
try driving a ferrari 80,000 miles without taking it into the shop...
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4. vonneumannstan ◴[] No.45064766{3}[source]
Try driving a Jeep Compass 5000 miles without taking it into the shop lmao. Terrible example
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5. jazzyjackson ◴[] No.45064785{4}[source]
:^)