#ai coding

recently, he decided to try it out for himself, out of curiosity.

(my dad is a software engineer)

what he found was that almost all the time, the ai output a ton of nonsensical errors, that he has to spend more time trying to fix then it would take him to write the code from scratch.

what's even more annoying, the thing sometimes spits back something along the lines of todo:fix, aka it tells the person to do it themselves after having already wasted a lot of water.

he said he's probably going to have to go through all the code that his co-workers have "written" to check for errors.

Even if AI art was hypothetically taken from completely ethical sources, I would not be in support of it.

People say that AI is democratizing art, which is an argument that only makes sense if we are viewing art exclusively as a product to be consumed (which is insanely devaluing to artists, but that's besides the point). And to that I say, no, it's not democratizing art because art is available to literally anyone who either just pays an artist or cares enough to learn how to draw it themself.

This is just the thing, people who say this don't want to pay an artist, they don't want to learn how to draw it, but yet they still think they should have access to it. That sense of entitlement to things someone would usually have to either pay for or learn to make themself is beyond me.

People want to generate AI art because they want art without wanting to learn how to draw or paying someone else to, because they think they are entitled to art just because they want it.

People want to generate an AI essay for them because they want a good grade without actually doing the assignment and writing an essay, because they think they are entitled to that good grade just because they want one.

People want to generate AI coding for them because they want a program without actually learning how to code or paying someone who does, because they think they are entitled to a program just because they want one.

No. You do not deserve anything that you want. If you want a good cover for your book, but you don't want to pay an artist to draw one or you don't want to learn how to draw one yourself, YOU DON'T DESERVE A BOOK COVER.