Dumb AI

Seriously, is AI helping in any way other than being an annoying collection of smart (debatable) decision collections???

Coding speaking, Copilot, Agentforce, etc, are, to me, like an annoying child that though smart, wants to embed his crap in everything you’re doing, yes, sometimes is is useful, specially when you want to include some boilerplate code, or want to illustrate a fibonacci algorithm, or a non-recursive factorial method in python, and so on.

But some of us work on real applications with real business requirements and no amount of AI will make our code work the way we really wanted, don’t even get me started with code completion, it is utter crap, seriously, I think the AI marketing plot is one created by semi-technical idiots that hate real developers, in order to piss us off and give (non-technical) management a reason to explain their exploded licensing budget for AI.

First thing I do in VS Code (my default IDE) is to disable these mostrosities and regain a bit of sanity.

Sure, “.. Hey, ChatGPT, create a one page summary of the importance of the wrath of Achilles from the Illiad poem ..”, or “.. Hey OpenAI, resume the 3-hour audio file from my professor (from the class I missed) into a bulletpoint paragraph ..”, that kind of thing, but please, stay away from coding.