Obviously, many people have viewed AI’s contribution to programming as just producing unreliable garbage.
replyYes, that’s an incomplete and tenuous belief, but that’s where the irony is. If you’re omniscient you don’t get to experience irony.
Hey, if Alanis Morissette can make the same mistake…
reply“Slop generator makes all future programs more reliable”
replyYeah this is actually quite interesting. I can see how people who have this "slop generator" perspective on AI would see this as an irony. But to me, it isn't an irony, it's a demonstration of why this perspective on AI is wrong.
replyI assume that's why the original comment said "perhaps ironically".
replyI'm firmly in the "AI is incredibly powerful and useful" camp myself, but there's no question that currently, without good human oversight and feedback, AI output can have many issues which can be described as slop.
But yes, improved type systems are one of the ways this can be managed, and essentially help bootstrap more reliable systems.
There's a minor irony in imperfect system being used to help build more perfect systems, but you could say the same thing about human developers.