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Stop me if this doesn't make any sense at all but I'm not a proponent of AI I don't really support it because of it's associations and the goals of the people in charge of it. That said I will occasionally play with an AI just to see what it's capable of and how it's development is coming along because unfortunately I can't just make the technology go away.
I've arrived at the conclusion that it's pretty terrible for most things. I asked it how I could make my copy of Minecraft always open to a certain Port when I hit the open to LAN button.
It literally made up a jvm argument that wasn't real and then later admitted that it just guessed.
My point is I'll mess with it a little but it's kind of a know your enemy thing.
One thing I do like about it is that it's better at analyzing than generating which is a common theme. If I feed it a big long crash log it can usually tell me what happened reasonably well or enough that I don't have to spend as much time f****** around digging through the logs, also if I'm getting obscure Windows errors it can generally comb through shitloads of Random microsoft support form b******* and point me in the right direction. I think the technology has uses it's just that they're different from what everyone is trying to use it for and that's a real damn shame isn't it
I will admit I use it occasionally, too. I use AutoCAD which can load LISP code but....I do not know how to write LISP. It can't replace a real programmer but Chatgpt has made a bunch of little scripts for me that turn 30 second tasks into 1-second automations.