It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
my routine was search for similar function, read/understand a piece of code. copy/paste block. modify for my context. test, move on
hardly ever wrote anything from scratch because it just took longer. ai seems like an unmodified copy/paste that doesn’t quite work. like generated art for non–artists, sucks. generated code for non-coders also sucks.
my routine was search for similar function, read/understand a piece of code. copy/paste block. modify for my context. test, move on hardly ever wrote anything from scratch because it just took longer. ai seems like an unmodified copy/paste that doesn’t quite work. like generated art for non–artists, sucks. generated code for non-coders also sucks.