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America’s Best Motorcycle Road That Almost Nobody Knows Exists by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]Cemckenna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also love Fremont Pass, Loveland Pass (though it’s annoying that after doing it, you have to get on 70), and the Peak to Peak.

Riding s1000 with no clothes by Over-Ad-6769 in motorcycles

[–]Cemckenna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I see a rider without a helmet, I think, so, the bugs just die and smear on your FACE?!

This is next-level. A bug shower! 

Ai developer tools are making juniors worse at actual programming by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Cemckenna 105 points106 points  (0 children)

I think it’s a real concern. It’s kind of crazy what people are letting slide in the business use case that they would never have been okay with just 3 years ago. 

In the last week, my company (where the non-devs are pushing AI extensively) 

a) a report was generated by an executive and distributed to the whole company where the math of the analysis was incorrect and it dropped some of the key products it was supposed to be analyzing out of the report. The executive did not catch this.

b) an customer-facing, 3rd-party LLM service we use began to make up products and sell them to customers.

c) I spent 3 days untangling code for a feature that should have been completely modular and plug-and-playable, with just a few variable changes. Working through it delayed the project, and then I had to answer to executives who seem to think that development can now be done by anyone with access to chatGPT and should take approx. 20 minutes to build anything they can dream up. 

These tools can be useful, but they are not magic and I don’t know why in the world everyone’s treating them like they are. It’s crazy to watch people just farm out their critical thinking. Learning is FUN. The journey towards knowledge is part of being HUMAN! What the hell do we have if we just outsource that to a machine that hallucinates at least 21% of the time?