From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 10:30:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1s96qc-0036s2C@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2O7iqmEt_UQLqDXb6RhJVQNgDuSWjihP_KjfyCpzyazxw@mail.gmail.com>
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At Mon, 20 May 2024 10:23:56 -0400, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...)
>
> This brings me back to my experience. IMO, auto-correct for programming is
> like DWIM all over again, and the cure causes more problems than it solves.
We're deep down that rabbit hole this time with LLM/GPT systems
generating large swathes of code that I believe all too often gets into
production without any human programmer fully vetting its fitness for
purpose, or perhaps even understanding it.
--
Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>
Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-20 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-19 23:08 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20 0:58 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-05-20 3:19 ` arnold
2024-05-20 3:43 ` Warner Losh
2024-05-20 4:46 ` arnold
2024-05-20 9:20 ` [TUHS] A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 11:58 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-05-20 13:10 ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-20 13:30 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 13:48 ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-20 3:54 ` [TUHS] Re: The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...) Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-20 14:23 ` Clem Cole
2024-05-20 17:30 ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
2024-05-20 20:10 ` John Levine
2024-05-21 1:14 ` John Cowan
2024-05-20 17:40 ` Stuff Received
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2024-05-19 14:03 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-19 16:18 ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2024-05-19 16:21 ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-19 20:42 ` Dave Horsfall
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