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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm.  At my work we have a custom IT project and are employing developers and there's no out of the box AI that will work for our purposes.

They are turning on AI features all over the place and encouraging us to use it.   But apparently it's not available for the purpose where we actually would like to try it.[/quote]

What I find interesting is the reason that AI is able to code currently is because it’s been trained on tons of code and stack overflow questions.  If nobody is creating new code or asking new questions on SO, where does new original content come from?

I do admit that ChatGPT does an excellent job of writing specific snippets of code; you’ll still need someone good to understand and integrate, and to design the system architecture.[/quote]

Yes, you need someone good to prompt it (basically write a spec) for small pieces that its able to do. Review what it does. Often make several sets of changes to its output and test it. I do believe it's a powerful tool, but it's not magic and without human interaction to guide and review it with an understanding, it is not reliable. Further, for anything novel or intricate that it has never seen, somewhere like StackOverflow, you definitely need human creativity. I recently encountered a fairly novel system that made a valiant effort, but overall, its approach was inferior to a more geometric solution I devised and it implemented. My point is this is helpful but isn't going to replace the human part of the equation anytime soon. It will likely continue to improve so no clue how this will play out though in 10+ years. The problem today is its really not capable of innovating just mimicry.[/quote]

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