AI induced errors in your code

What I am afraid is people will not learn a thing from this.

I'm orienting a student fresh out of secondary school. He knows (I'm assuming) PHP, hence, he should know how to program. Ive asked him if he wouldn't mind learning Python (and Flask Framework) for a project I'm going to give him, He said yes.

The next day I went by him and he already has a nice looking form, with lot's of fields and some buttons and it works.

Then, I see Gemini opened in another window.  I told him right away - You better start reading a Python book or along the way, Gemini (or any other LLM) will spill out some code, it will not work, and you'll not have a clue on why is that.  You'll turn to it for clarification, it will spill out some more code, it will keep throwing errors and you'll still not have a clue because you don't know Python. You just think you do.

Granted, it will/is help(ing) programmers to be more productive, it is. But the programmer must know that programming language, or, have years of background in programming to understand what could be wrong.

Otherwise, just dumb people that blindly trust anything a LLM spills out.  It may work out of the box, but is it safe code ? optimized code ? good code ?

I'm using it to create the documentation, for example. Using Codeium to analyse the code (or chatGPT) in VScode and ask it to write the documentation for the functions, for example. They are great on boring tasks.

It helps me by writing the code I was gonna write ? Sure. It helps me find solutions and find mistakes I don't see ? Sure. It is of great help.

Will I ask him to write the next social network ?  Maybe...

Did any one already tried the new fad "Vibe coding ? "

Yes there are lots of danger with seductive short cuts.

It is hard to explain the dangers of these things to people who have not spent days/weeks/months, trying to track down errant behavior in software.

I did just that!

Blog on it's way, soon.

In the meantime, here's all the vibe code for the Web App.

I reckon Gemini did about 96% of the coding for me, including the JSdoc documentation and the readme. It's staggering how good these LLM's are and how much time I saved. Things can only get better.

https://github.com/Gerriko/ble_scanner_WebApp_orientationSensor/tree/main

Here's a demo (a few extra features added since):

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That approach can only lead to more insanity.

DAB Is AI eligible for Darwin Awards?

Almost certainly. The Darwin hallucination award.

I now see AI has that super smart computer grad with zero street sense... always rushing off to do the job before fully understanding exactly what is required (basically proving that assumption is the mother of all problems).

Technically a Darwin Award is only for people who take themselves out of the gene pool.

So an AI system that self destructs is only an algorithm fulfilling its destiny.

DAB One should invent Babbage Awards?

Only if you think AI is ever going to become smart enough to care.