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Our story begins, as many stories do, with a man and his AI. The man, like many men, is a bit of a geek and a bit of a programmer. He also needs a haircut.
The AI is the culmination of thousands of years of human advancement, all put to the service of making the man's life a little easier. The man, of course, is me. I'm that guy.
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Unfortunately, while AI can be incredibly brilliant, it also has a propensity to lie, mislead, and make shockingly stupid mistakes. It is the stupid part that we will be discussing in this article.
Anecdotal evidence does have value. My reports on how I've solved some problems quickly with AI are real. The programs I used AI to write with are still in use. I have used AI to help speed up aspects of my programming flow, especially when I focus on the sweet spots where I'm less productive and the AI is quite knowledgeable, like writing functions that call publicly published APIs.
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You know how we got here. Generative AI burst onto the scene at the cusp of 2023 and has been blasting its way into knowledge work ever since.
One area, as the narrative goes, where AI truly shines is its ability to write code and help manage IT systems. Those claims are not untrue. I have shown, several times, how AI has solved coding and systems engineering problems I have personally experienced.
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