I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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    19 hours ago

    This is like saying “but it is just a sophisticated network of neurons. All it can do is transform input signals into output signals. That’s what it does.”

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      18 hours ago

      Not really.

      A machine learning model is a computer program. It is fundamentally a math equation, which we understand completely.

      A living brain is not fundamentally a math equation, and is not purely a statistical model, at least not in any empirically demonstrable way. We don’t understand completely how it works, but we do know that it’s more complex than what you’re trying to imply.

      The comparison is not valid. Machine learning models are not an equivalent to a biological brain.

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        10 hours ago

        A machine learning model is a computer program. It is fundamentally a math equation, which we understand completely.

        Lol you couldn’t be more wrong about this. One of the most widely commented things about DNNs is that we don’t really understand them completely. I don’t know how you would miss that if you knew anything about AI at all.

        A living brain is not fundamentally a math equation

        It is. A very complicated one, sure. Which part of the brain do you think is impossible to simulate with maths?