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No the fuck it’s not

I’m a pretty big proponent of FOSS AI, but none of the models I’ve ever used are good enough to work without a human treating it like a tool to automate small tasks. In my workflow there is no difference between LLMs and fucking grep for me.

People who think AI codes well are shit at their job

There are plenty of open issues on open source repos it could open PRs for though?

I’m guessing if it would actually work for that, somebody would have done it by now.

But it probably just does it’s usual thing of bullshitting something that looks like code, only now you’re wasting the time of maintainers as well who have to confirm that it is bobbins.

It’s already doing that, some FOSS projects regularly get weird PRs that on first glance look good, but if you look closer are either total nonsense or riddled with bugs. Especially awful are security-related PRs; although those are never made in good faith, that’s usually grifting (throwing AI at the wall trying to cash in as many bounties as possible). The project lead of curl recently announced that anyone who posts a PR that’s obviously AI, or is made with AI, will get banned.

Like, it’s really good as a learning tool as long as you don’t blindly believe everything it says given you can ask stuff in natural language and it will resolve possible knowledge dependencies for you that you’d otherwise get stuck on in official docs, and since you can ask contextual questions receiving contextual answers (no logical abstraction). But code generation… please don’t.

it’s really good as a learning tool as long as you don’t blindly believe everything it says given you can ask stuff in natural language

the poster: “it’s really good as a learning tool”

the poster: “but don’t blindly believe it”

the learner: “how should I know when to believe it?”

the poster: “check everything”

the learner: “so you’re saying I should just read the actual documentation and/or source?”

the poster: “how are you going to ask that anything? how can you fondle something that isn’t a prompt?!”

the learner: “thanks for your time, I think I’m going to find another class”