• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    19 hours ago

    The best part of paying for a coding assistant is discovering halfway through your project that it has developed opinions about what your project is allowed to be. Imagine your IDE refusing to compile because it thinks your game feels a little too much like Tetris. At least a compiler doesn’t pretend it’s doing you a favor.

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      18 hours ago

      I think that’s what they wanted from the very beginning, to accelerate projects that are socially convenient for them, but not those that are not.

      There’s that issue with universal machines that some people don’t like that others are allowed to make universal decisions.

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      17 hours ago

      My coworker recently had an experience where he was trying to fix a security hole and his AI wouldn’t do it because it claimed that it was unsafe.