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From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] knuth
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:58:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f550a4aa-3f62-7c1f-ffff-416d611857bb@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAJKhAneRMv-AihEJr4t52y=bz0-SKUXQ2D93Sp=n0-PRDjiA@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/2/2023 9:27 AM, BPJ wrote:

> I wonder what Knuth would say about having ChatGPT write computer 
> programs, which I think can be outright dangerous. Either you get shitty 
> code which doesn't work, which is good, or you get shitty code which 
> works which is bad or Really Bad.

He's pretty clear that he leave that to others and continues with TAOCP.

wrt you remark: to a large extend these are 'plagiarism' machines so one 
can wonder about more. I suppose it also depends on how original these 
programs are (or become). I don't see myself using such software, just 
like I don't use all these software coding tools (ide stuff). When I 
acn't remember what I'm doing, or need constant help popping up I should 
not code. I'm intrigued of course, and see valid applications, but wrt 
programming I'm just not that interested. I bet after a few years people 
get bored with the artificial stuff (painting, music, proze, movies, 
whatever; just hitting buttons doesn't make a creative person I guess), 
unless of course one wants to be zombified.

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-02  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-01  9:44 Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-06-01 10:32 ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
2023-06-01 11:49   ` Floris van Manen via ntg-context
2023-06-02  7:27 ` BPJ via ntg-context
2023-06-02  7:58   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2023-06-02 21:07     ` Carlos via ntg-context
2023-06-04 21:57 ` Berend de Boer via ntg-context
2023-06-05 13:09   ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-06-05 14:20     ` Carlos via ntg-context
2023-06-05 14:50     ` luigi scarso via ntg-context
2023-06-05 15:22       ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-06-05 16:07       ` Carlos via ntg-context

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