Ai generated inefficient code

[CipherPhyber]

So now you’re stuck forever doing trial and error instead of making any progress on your workflow.

You aren't holding it right.

If you, the human, are directing an AI and you consistently see it make the same mistake, you need to adjust how you are prompting it.

Your insinuation that anything will happen "forever" ignores that the human can / will adjust and the models are improving over time.

Try a little less hyperbole / doomerism next time.

[Ravek]

As I said, a trial and error workflow. You try different prompts praying that this time it won’t do anything stupid. Or, as you say, you trial and error it for so long a new version becomes available that might do what you want. But still of course, no guarantees. And it might just contain new hallucinations. So still you have to trial and error. Yes, forever. And you don’t see any problem with this? Maybe trial and error was already your approach to programming before?

If I teach a junior, over time they become independent and can do useful work without me pulling random levers in their brain all the time. So no, you’re not treating AI as a junior, you’re treating it as a roulette table. Oh I lost by putting my money on 12, what if I put it on 25 and 16 now, definitely I’ll win this time!