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Author: Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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Subject: Re: I Tried AI for Programming and Article Writing
On 2024-05-06 09:33, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Part 2 ...
>
> The film I submitted to the AIFilmFest, I stopped in the middle, looked
> at the camera, and asked the question: If Gen AI replaces junior
> people, and still needs senior people to review/correct their work,
> who's going to replace the senior people as they age out since the
> juniors are being replaced by AI? Like Keith said, one needs to have
> the background to know when AI is right or wrong.
>
> Just food for thought ...
>
> Regards,
>
> George Toft


Very interesting. I am going to make a YouTube video and blog post on
my experience. George can I quote you? I will not mention your name or
where you made the post. I just want the above statement.



>
> On 4/14/2024 7:49 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to share my experience.  When AI came out I feared it would
>> take over my niche as a PHP developer.  After taking AI for a test run
>> this is what I discovered:
>>
>> 1) The application analysis and design still needs to be performed by
>> a human.
>>
>> 2) The human, in my case, the developer, needs to have a decent
>> understanding of what one asks AI to create.  I asked for a simple
>> M-V-C app and it provided one that was very interesting, however it
>> did not process the URL to get the Controller, Action, and segments.
>>
>> 3) Humans will still need to test the app once complete.  AI does
>> create some automated testing, however human testing is still
>> required.
>>
>> 4) AI is great for learning.  I found the PHP AI code to be more
>> precise and did things differently than I.  Great learning
>> opportunity.
>>
>> 5) I asked AI to help me understand what the Linux logs were used for
>> and it gave me what appeared to be something I can learn from.  It
>> appears to be much better than Google.
>>
>> 6) As listed above, AI can be used to learn and build skills.
>>
>> 7) I had Ai write me an article and it spit out about 650 words that
>> could be the bases of an article for a blog post.
>>
>> When it is all said and done, I fear AI much less.
>>
>> Keith
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