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On 5/14/2026 7:30 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 2026-05-14 02:17, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> wrote:

im not sure hovever if what you say is true , chat gpt for example
explain what he give and is doing it quite well (terribly well - he is >>>> far better than any programmer i met, he is far better than me

(and whats curious - see seem to be aware of this)

I guess the AI system we now have are better in programming
related tasks than getting facts right in general. Why this
is so, I do not know. Perhaps AIs can focus better on topics
that have a well-defined, narrower context.

Unfortunately, this is wrong, in every respect.

AIs are not better, they just pick samples from their random
knowledge base. It may be complete trash what they provide.

"better" than what? I said they are better at programming
related things rather than providing general facts. This seems
indeed to be the truth.

AIs have also no focus. - They can't do programming, they
associate from the question some (good or bad, functional or
hazardous) code. That code is not different to what you call
"facts". They are as bad in choosing appropriate programs as
they are presenting other "facts"; quality is purely random.

Nonsense. They can do programming. Red Hat has now mandated
that each of their developers *must* use AI as assistance
or they must find a new job. Some people just oppose progress
and in their arrogance, think that humans are the only ones
that can possess intelligence.

In my discussions with chatGPT, I have encountered errors
very often. You really have to be skeptical when using it.

That is sound advice. - I'd even say, get an experienced
programmer and leave AI's products alone. The AI stuff is
nice to play with and if you don't need to produce reliable
software in a larger project's scale. It may provide you,
if you're inexperienced in software development, with hints,
but never use the products where lives or big money depends
on.

AIs are able to develop kernel C code and find bugs from
codebases that have been inspected by humans for several
years, even decades. Used correctly, they are a great tool
and in the future every developer will use AI assistance
either to help develop code or to find bugs in the code.

Fwiw, I have to admit that they can be fairly decent code assistants.
One of them helped me out with some rather tricky directx12 shit.
Porting my modern opengl engine over to dx12, around 70% done... I need
to do this to run it on my xbox in dev mode.

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