Re: Good grief!
I'm in my sixth decade and I often wonder "What the hell were they thinking/doing".
Maybe there are less people that quietly listen, gather facts and then make decisions based on verifiable facts.
Case in point, a certain U.S. president that can't seem to S.T.F.U. If ever there was anybody that carefully selected their words before they spoke, he isn't one of them.
I'm also sick and tired of political ideology, left/right, tired of religion. Perhaps I'm just getting older and see it as wasted time.
Every situation is different and the pros and cons should be weighed up on their own merits. Sometimes public ownership makes sense sometimes not.
Sometimes AI works, sometimes it fails spectacularly.
What worries me more about AI is that it is taking over more difficult human thought processes and perhaps making people dumber because they don't need to practise those thoughts skills.
Programming can sometimes be hard to get right and requires a great deal of thought and planning.
But here we here using AI to write software that the person writing the prompts is either too lazy or being pressured not to write themselves. And because AI generates the code so quick with little effort and often buggy, few humans want to spend their time fixing it for little credit. After all the person submitting their buggy masterpiece gets all the credit.
I can see lots of discarded pull requests that are AI generated because the original prompter can't be bothered to test it and equally spend ages fixing it because fixing it requires thinking. Nobody else wants to spend their valuable time fixing and testing the PR submitted by somebody else who spent 2hrs AI generating the code and gets the credit.
AI will find it's niche but not before vasts amounts of resources have been used and unnecessary damage has been done.
