I Tried AI for Programming and Article Writing

[George Toft]

Hi Keith,

Gen AI definitely has a place. Think of Gen AI as a meat grinder - stuff 
goes in (training data) in various amounts (prompts), different stuff 
comes out based on the blades and crank (more prompts). Maybe it's good, 
maybe not.

I created a film using Gen AI. Human-recorded video. AI-created script. 
AI voice. Human edited, titled, rendered. Took 15 seconds to write the 
script, an hour to fix the typos and grammatical errors, and the rest 
was just post-processing. Definitely quick.

I entered another film into the First Annual AIFilmFest last year - it 
was accepted. In it, I enumerated the AI's used to make an earlier PSA. 
11 AI's in total, and most people don't even know it.


Now, taking this back to another project near and dear to our lives ...

My job as a sysadmin was moved to Argentina in 2006 because they got 
paid about 10% what I did. At that time, the company-wide 
Server:sysadmin ratio was 15:1, and our team was 30:1.

My employer just fired the whole outsourcing company because we have 
self-healing, automation, AI managing the servers, and we do it better 
ourselves than Kyndryl. The Server:Sysadmin ratio now is approaching 350:1.


Gen AI will change the landscape like automobiles changed 
transportation. Those that keep riding horses will go the way of the 
wagons. To remain relevant means learning how a car works.


Fortunately for me, I shifted careers into something AI can't do because 
many humans can't even do it. So I'll be safe until I age out and 
retire. Kinda like equine search & rescue - can't take a car down that 
trail - so the old ways will develop a niche market.


Regards,

George Toft

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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