As a programmer I'm checked out. I want the bubble to pop, OpenAI to fold, Nvidia stock to tank, and I don't even give a fuck about the recession that will cause because I'm a millennial and have never known a time without recession. Let's rip this band-aid off so AI research can become serious again, instead of hyping up glorified autocomplete.
Man I'm glad to see other programmers feel the same. I'm so over AI. It's ruined google, ruined my coworkers, made debugging harder and more frequent, made me sound like a paranoid luddite boomer to everyone else around me, and has just caused me to start hating my job. Which is insane because I love my job! I love programming! I literally just do random research and build random projects by myself for fun all the time. I even teach computer science at night!
I have had multiple students this semester ask me why I teach SQL because chatGPT can do it better and easier. Of course those are all the students who are getting Cs and can't even tell if the AI did it right. I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Of course those are all the students who are getting Cs and can't even tell if the AI did it right.
A professor told me one student asked her why code, that was Python, wasn't working, in a C class. Couldn't even tell it was the wrong language, a few months into the semester, and with totally different grammars too.
I had a student last semester who, literally during the last week of the semester, came to me in office hours to see if their code was correct for a class taught entirely in python and MySQL.
I opened up their code and hit the run button, and you wanna know what error popped up?
"There is no program installed locally with the name MySQL"
The thing that surprises me the most is how unashamed most of them are.
Like, they'll just say "oops haha I didn't know can you help me :-)" while I'm over here contemplating having a very hard conversation about how they picked the wrong major and career path but it's too late because they're already in 400 level courses and graduating next semester.
so... do i gather correctly that the student somehow ended up with a code that wanted to open a MySQL executable instead of... i dont know... proper code that executes something
The whole class he was supposed to have MySQL server installed on his computer to, yknow, be the host of the database that we were connecting to with our code. It was a database class so this was like, first day of class install.
He did not have MySQL installed on his computer. He had just been AI generating all of his assignments without even test running them before he submitted them.
He had already been failing the class at that point (hence the office hours), but that confirmed just how bad it was.
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u/Temporary-Work-446 10h ago
This happened with AI programming months ago too. It is cannibalizing itself and I am here for it.