• Rooster326@programming.dev
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    3 hours ago

    What exactly is “Used AI” though?

    Most developers are going to have some form of auto complete - AI powered or not.

    Is it just assets I assume?

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      2 hours ago

      Autocomplete isn’t AI. It’s string recognition which predates AI by about 35 years.

      T9 predictive texting definitely didn’t contain AI, but was absolutely a thing for a really long time.

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      2 hours ago

      i think it’s impossible totally exclude ai from a developing process nowadays (you googled something? you use ai. etc.), but not having generated images/assets/texts is realistic

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      1 hour ago

      auto complete

      It’s called lexical analysis or lexical tokenization. It existed long before LLMs (as long as high-level programming languages have, since lexical analysis of the source is the first step of compilation), it doesn’t rely on stolen code, and doesn’t consume a small village’s worth of electricity. Superficial parallels with chatbots do not make it AI – it’s a fucking algorithm.

      Besides, there is a world of difference between asking a clanker to spit out a Python function that multiplies two matrices, and putting the knock-off Shadowheart from TEMU in a million-dollar game.

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      56 minutes ago

      I assume it refers to assets and mechanics that actively involve AI. If you’re using Copilot to finish your switch case, I don’t think that would count.