An intersting discussion on AI augmented programming

[uptown]

Pretty sure this is why I married a blonde..next Thursday is 47 years 

Eagler

Outstanding! Congratulations 

[CptTrips]

Agreed.  Absolutely.

- oldman

[Brooke]

Felt like an oil rig in space.

I also prefer Near-Future SciFi.  Both that and Alien had that industrial Near-Future vibe.  It felt a lot more believable than if they were prancing around in spandex shooting lasers.

Like the Abyss.  That was like an oil rig on the bottom of the ocean.  Had an grease smudged industrial feel.

My daughters recently turned 15, so I'm opening up the movie list more. Not just because of more-adult content, but because there are elements they can understand and appreciate at this age that they couldn't when younger.

Recently, we've watched Alien (they could appreciate the craftsmanship of the film, but they'll like Aliens better), The Abyss, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Red Dawn, Blade Runner, Hunt for Red October.

I figured The Abyss would have been hard to shoot, but I had no idea. I read about the making of it. Seems like one of the hardest-to-make movies of all time.

[Brooke]

I can't imagine not liking an Arthur C. Clarke book. Rendevous with Rama is supposed to come to the screen eventually.

Childhood's End. Great, but yikes.

[Brooke]

Nerds!

I kid of course. Carry on, geeks.

[Brooke]

Oh man.  It sounds stupid but TOS was my life growing up.  I was TOS obsessed.  I watched every episode over and over and over every evening at 6pm on one of the UHF stations.  Had every line of every episode memorized almost.  I was a bit OCD as a kid.

Lolz.  Same. 

I even thought of joining the Navy to be on a nuclear sub because it seemed like the closest thing to being on the Enterprise.  I've read that such was the thought of some submariners. Got a letter from Admiral Rickover, which (being young and stupid at the time) I didn't keep.

[Brooke]

Before Princess Leia and her metal slave bikini, there was...

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Nice place you have here, Mr. Pike.

[Brooke]

Mrs. Peel.

They named the character "Emma Peel" to be like "M appeal" as in "man appeal" as a purposeful, thought-out decision. Impressive. 

[CptTrips]

Lolz.  Same. 

I even thought of joining the Navy to be on a nuclear sub because it seemed like the closest thing to being on the Enterprise.  I've read that such was the thought of some submariners. Got a letter from Admiral Rickover, which (being young and stupid at the time) I didn't keep.

I always thought it was cool they went for a Navy vibe instead of Army or Air Force.  Makes sense.

Red Shirts = Space Marines?

[Brooke]

I was originally a skeptic.  As you get your workflows dialed in, it easily doubles my productivity.  I am pretty skeptical on tech fads but this is no fad.  Doubling productivity may even be conservative.

I use LLM assist on coding regularly in my current project. It is enormously useful. Saves me huge time, for all the reasons you discuss. I use Tabnine (can select different AI's, but am using mostly Claude) hooked into my VS Code environment, supplemented occasionally by Gemini and Grok.  Working in C/C++ for a microcontroller and TypeScript for client side code.

I picked Tabnine because they say they don't keep all your interaction and utilize it.

So useful in not just writing some snippets of code, but suggesting what is wrong with code based on complicated error messages, getting right to tricky api information without digging through dozens of web pages if I did a normal search, suggesting or discussing architecture options, explaining a segment of code that I highlight, critiquing code segments, giving information on what are the leading libraries to use for this or that, giving suggestions for most-used extensions for VS Code for what I'm doing, giving me info on where to get to a setting or functionality in VS Code, etc. Gigantically helpful.

[AKIron]

I used to ignore the AI responses to google queries on specific IT issues. I usually found some of the details to be lacking or wrong. Instead I'd skip to the real person responses. AI has gotten a lot better at this and while not always correct I still read them first now.

[AKIron]

Once AI has mastered driving cars and flying planes, dealing with all situations, there's really no reason for people to do it anymore. No matter how expert a person may be anyone can make a mistake. An AI is far less prone to that.

[Busher]

Once AI has mastered flying planes, dealing with all situations, there's really no reason for people to do it anymore. No matter how expert a person may be anyone can make a mistake. An AI is far less prone to that.

I hate to tell you but we're already there insofar as airplanes are concerned. The Air Line Pilots Association (my union for 38 years) is already in a fight to stop the removal of one pilot from the flight deck. Despite that I have little doubt that this will come to pass.
I have great faith in the pilots that have made the free world's aviation the safest form of moving from one place to another for the past few decades.
There have already been more that a few "screw-ups" in the onboard AI  in both Boeing and Airbus jets. Most have averted a catastrophe thanks to the intervention of qualified humans.... some not so fortunate. I have no idea how one would train AI to deal with emergencies not anticipated by the manufacturer's checklists - consider an emergency exit window that was certified not to fail.
I have no doubt that pilotless airlliners are the way of the future but I for one tend to have little faith in the infalabilty of machines and software built by humans.

[AKIron]

AI can be tuned to rival the best drivers and best pilots. AI will always perform at that level in every conveyance. There are a lot more less than best drivers and pilots than the best out there now. AI will never text or drink and drive.

[Oldman731]

I hate to tell you but we're already there insofar as airplanes are concerned. The Air Line Pilots Association (my union for 38 years) is already in a fight to stop the removal of one pilot from the flight deck. Despite that I have little doubt that this will come to pass.
I have great faith in the pilots that have made the free world's aviation the safest form of moving from one place to another for the past few decades.
There have already been more that a few "screw-ups" in the onboard AI  in both Boeing and Airbus jets. Most have averted a catastrophe thanks to the intervention of qualified humans.... some not so fortunate. I have no idea how one would train AI to deal with emergencies not anticipated by the manufacturer's checklists - consider an emergency exit window that was certified not to fail.
I have no doubt that pilotless airlliners are the way of the future but I for one tend to have little faith in the infalabilty of machines and software built by humans.

Have you checked out the Garmin auto-land system?  Pretty neat.

Also pretty expensive.

- oldman