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Some Amazon employees said they were still sceptical of AI tools’ utility for the bulk of their work given the risk of error. They added that the company had set a target for 80 per cent of developers to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week and was closely tracking adoption.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

AI "safety experts": AI is so powerful, it'll turn into Hackerbot and take down websites on its own!

AI in real life: so crappy that developers who trust it will break their own websites with the code it makes

[–] morto@piefed.social 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We got to give them due credit. They were spot on on the end result, but just missed on the cause leading to it lol

[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's almost like ~~industry mouthpieces~~ safety experts want us to believe AI is super capable, when the real danger is it's super incapable...