Another says that they should audit the AI code using AI. Basically saying lets wrap the blackbox with another blackbox but this time with markerpen writing on top of the blackbox.
Idk how’s that supposed to help, i’m not a programmer, but i’d assume if Claude misunderstood the code that they themselves wrote, the project became unfixable, and they might have to see themselves writing the whole thing from the ground up.
Reminds me of that company I was interviewing with back in May where the department lead proudly told me that all of their specs, code, docs and tests are now generated by LLMs.
They were seeking a replacement for a lady that had suddenly left…
That is literally now lol. It’s a cycle because stupid people are easily scared and poor people are quicker to anger. The stupid people think they are geniuses because when they ignore the smart people it feels like people are less mean to them.
On a very basic level, it is indeed a description/definition of what your resulting code is supposed to do. The chap’s proposal is basically let ai read the spec and build the software. Tomorrow you find out it’s missing something so you only adapt the spec and let the ai build it from scratch. Now, it doesn’t take too much imagination to see where this can and absolutely will go wrong, and especially in what unknown and very interesting ways especially.
There’s a chap in the comments suggesting to stop worrying, you only need to keep to the spec. The sheer stupidity of that… good god the stupidity.
Another says that they should audit the AI code using AI. Basically saying lets wrap the blackbox with another blackbox but this time with markerpen writing on top of the blackbox.
Idk how’s that supposed to help, i’m not a programmer, but i’d assume if Claude misunderstood the code that they themselves wrote, the project became unfixable, and they might have to see themselves writing the whole thing from the ground up.
What you are describing is specifically why I left programming and became a carpenter.
Reminds me of that company I was interviewing with back in May where the department lead proudly told me that all of their specs, code, docs and tests are now generated by LLMs.
They were seeking a replacement for a lady that had suddenly left…
Let me guess: they’re completely at a loss how this happened so unexpectedly.
I’m certain at some points only idiots have a job and the rest of us are jobless and homeless. Idiocracy.
That is literally now lol. It’s a cycle because stupid people are easily scared and poor people are quicker to anger. The stupid people think they are geniuses because when they ignore the smart people it feels like people are less mean to them.
I take it the lady’s position was not filled by you?
What is a spec? Like what the code is meant to do?
On a very basic level, it is indeed a description/definition of what your resulting code is supposed to do. The chap’s proposal is basically let ai read the spec and build the software. Tomorrow you find out it’s missing something so you only adapt the spec and let the ai build it from scratch. Now, it doesn’t take too much imagination to see where this can and absolutely will go wrong, and especially in what unknown and very interesting ways especially.
lol that comment caught my eye as well. On some level I’m telling myself it’s just really dry sarcasm. Because i mean it’s just so dumb.