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[–] DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Has there been any good consumer Ai products yet? I keep seeing all these products in search of a problem.

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

1.) A convoluted way to search for sources about a thing I know nothing about. I looked up how property deeds work and gemini gave me a rough summary and enough links to actually find out what I needed to know. For anything I do know about, just plain google suffices.

2.) Vulcan straight man for comedy routines.

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Better text to speech and speech to text, automatic image descriptions, better translations.

ChatGPT and the likes can also be used to access content without ads nor license

Also you can write the letters "AI" on a paper and rich people will give you money. They'll want it back eventually but hey

[–] ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 days ago

They can ai deez nutz

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Coderabbit for PR reviews at work has both impressed me and made me aggregated by how incorrect some of the comments are. It's like, it's caught bugs that i would have missed even when looking very closely but also makes the same suggestions to over complicate chunks or suggestions that literally don't work. Such as assuming the db schema when looking at a query and saying "that's not what the column is called".

So, that's best I've experienced really, basically a PR check that's able to find some really out there bugs but a lot of comments need to be ignored.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you need to review the PR review instead lol

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I do, but it catches really weird bugs. And dismissing comments is definitely less work than figuring out the bug later when it shows up.

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 4 points 3 days ago

Besides improving grammar in emails, no, not really

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A few developers I know are very impressed by Claude.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I, too, can copy and paste from StackOverflow.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, but you'll know if you're copying from the answer, or the question.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even if that were literally what it did, having a StackOverflow button would be pretty cool

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It works well for small programs and boilerplate. But you need to know what you are doing to guide it. They can very often get stuck in some rabbithole

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I concur, it has gotten me in multiple wild goose chases when debugging. It is extremely confident especially when it's wrong

It's pretty good at fleshing out documentation. and if you're naming variables properly it's pretty good at gleaning what you're trying to do and autocomplete on a small scale.

It is extremely confident especially when it's wrong

This reminded me of a recent study I saw posted about the accuracy of AI and trying to remove hallucinations. One of the conclusions of which being, besides that it's impossible to stop them from hallucinating, that the tests companies use to grade the quality of an AI and the expectations of users grade confidence in an answer higher than the accuracy of the answer.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I’ll be honest, it’s probably wasted more time than it’s saved me. I only trust it to format files and find where things might be used in the code base. So, you know, plain-language pretty print and grep.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Is there any smaller, "semantic search"-oriented model, rather than all the coding agents?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I think Adobe's new generative fill is supposed to be pretty good? It's just a more complicated version of their much older content-aware fill.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Do they have an AI program that filters out AI content yet? That might be good.