I Tried AI for Programming and Article Writing

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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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