In order for an AI to know what code to scrape from stack overflow a user must be able to articulate what they want the program to do, now we all know they can’t so I doubt AI can for quite some time.
In order for an AI to know what code to scrape from stack overflow
It’s a common assumption that gpt is only cutting and pasting what it found on Google. But it’s not true. I spent hours trying to find help with vba for Excel ( because I know neither) with no results other than function definitions. Gpt gave me working code that wasn’t anywhere on the Internet. It had to have pieced together the code based on the well documented function definitions.
I see it like Dalle and those other ai art programs. You can see the style they are copying to create the picture. But the ai generated pictures are not cut and pasted from images already on the Internet.
You do have to be careful though. Sometimes it gives functions that don’t exist.
PowerShell has a well established naming scheme of get-[function] or set-[function] so when you ask GPT to create a powershell code to set the name of a file it will use set-filename but that doesn’t exist.
I do believe that you can use LLM to assist in program creation but doubt an end user can articulate in full what they want a program to do.
In order for an AI to know what code to scrape from stack overflow a user must be able to articulate what they want the program to do, now we all know they can’t so I doubt AI can for quite some time.
It’s a common assumption that gpt is only cutting and pasting what it found on Google. But it’s not true. I spent hours trying to find help with vba for Excel ( because I know neither) with no results other than function definitions. Gpt gave me working code that wasn’t anywhere on the Internet. It had to have pieced together the code based on the well documented function definitions.
I see it like Dalle and those other ai art programs. You can see the style they are copying to create the picture. But the ai generated pictures are not cut and pasted from images already on the Internet.
You do have to be careful though. Sometimes it gives functions that don’t exist.
PowerShell has a well established naming scheme of get-[function] or set-[function] so when you ask GPT to create a powershell code to set the name of a file it will use set-filename but that doesn’t exist.
I do believe that you can use LLM to assist in program creation but doubt an end user can articulate in full what they want a program to do.