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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 170 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AI is yet another technology that enables morons to think they can cut out the middleman of programming staff, only to very quickly realise that we're more than just monkeys with typewriters.

[–] alp@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Well I think I am a monkey with a typewriter...

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah! I have two typewriters!

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

i have a mobile touchscreen typewriter, but it isn't very effective at writing code.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was going to post a note about typewriters, allegedly from Tom Hanks, which I saw years and years ago; but I can't find it.

Turns out there's a lot of Tom Hanks typewriter content out there.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He donated his to my hs randomly, it was supposed to goto the valedictorian but the school kept it lmao, it was so funny because they showed everyone a video where he says not to keep the typewriter and its for a student

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

That's ... Pretty depressing.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

We're monkeys with COMPUTERS!!!

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair.. If this guy would have hired a dev team, the same thing could happen.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

True, any software can be vulnerable to attack.

but the difference is a technical team of software developers can mitigate an attack and patch it. This guy has no tech support than the AI that sold him the faulty code that likely assumed he did the proper hardening of his environment (which he did not).

Openly admitting you programmed anything with AI only is admitting you haven't done the basic steps to protecting yourself or your customers.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 44 points 1 week ago

But then they'd have a dev team who wrote the code and therefore knows how it works.

In this case, the hackers might understand the code better than the "author" because they've been working in it longer.