> Is this what people are referring to when they say AI writes their tests?
yes
> Any intelligent, reasoning human would immediately see that it's not even close to enough. You barely even need a coding background to see the issues.
[nods]
> This kind of thing happens over and over again. I look at the stuff it outputs and it's clear to me that no reasoning thing would act this way
and yet there're so many people who are convinced it's fantastic. Oh, I made myself sad.
The larger observation about it being statistical inference, rather than reason... but looks to so many to be reason is quite an interesting test case for the "fuzzing" of humans. In line with why do so many engineers store passwords in clear text? Why do so many people believe AI can reason?
yes
> Any intelligent, reasoning human would immediately see that it's not even close to enough. You barely even need a coding background to see the issues.
[nods]
> This kind of thing happens over and over again. I look at the stuff it outputs and it's clear to me that no reasoning thing would act this way
and yet there're so many people who are convinced it's fantastic. Oh, I made myself sad.
The larger observation about it being statistical inference, rather than reason... but looks to so many to be reason is quite an interesting test case for the "fuzzing" of humans. In line with why do so many engineers store passwords in clear text? Why do so many people believe AI can reason?