Stephen Downes

Strongly worded and sometimes rude statement in support of AI for software development. "If you're making requests on a ChatGPT page and then pasting the resulting (broken) code into your editor, you're not doing what the AI boosters are doing." So, that's where I'm at. Where are the pros at? "If you were trying and failing to use an LLM for code 6 months ago, you're not doing what most serious LLM-assisted coders are doing.People coding with LLMs today use agents. Agents get to poke around your codebase on their own. They author files directly. They run tools. They compile code, run tests, and iterate on the results." The main point here is that AI is not using tools, and obtaining the quality that the use of tools enables.