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0 pointsSpivak7mo ago0 comments

See this has become a popular quip when talking about AI but it doesn't make any sense. Autogenerated API references are worth their weight in gold despite not being written by a human. Live captioning and transcription in Teams/Zoom is really useful when you you miss something and need to go back. Machine translations, as flawed as they might be, are a godsend despite not being written by a human translator.

You can apply this logic to procedurally generated games like No Man's Sky. Why would you want to play a level that a human didn't even bother to design?

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abenga7mo ago· 1 in thread

You are selecting the subset of AI that generally makes sense and is useful. A lot of the things you mention (captioning, autogenerating APIs from code, etc) were solved problems, even before generative AI.

SpivakOP7mo ago

And they might not even be implemented with AI, they were all examples times when you read something no human bothered to write. And I'm expecting the retort will be something to the effect of well they're just translating some source material written/spoken by a human but that's what's happening here with commit messages (and MR descriptions).

I'm not sure I would go whole-hog and let this tool rewrite my history but my `git commit -v` wraper pre-populates the commit message with something AI generated based on the diff and I've been quite happy with the results. I think my commit messages are much better as a result.

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