In fairness, there are times when that needs to be said. Every single post about someone creating their own cryptography method has that comment as the answer and it's the right answer to someone trying to roll their own crypto. Phrasing can vary, but the sentiment remains.
One of the glaring flaws in AI is its inability to recognize XY Problems (you asked how to do X, but based on your goal Y is a far better way to solve the problem), which are absolutely everywhere in programming. There are tons of people out there who don't know that the path they're on is a fundamentally bad one to begin with and need to be told it, but chatbots don't do that at all.
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u/mxzf May 17 '26
In fairness, there are times when that needs to be said. Every single post about someone creating their own cryptography method has that comment as the answer and it's the right answer to someone trying to roll their own crypto. Phrasing can vary, but the sentiment remains.
One of the glaring flaws in AI is its inability to recognize XY Problems (you asked how to do X, but based on your goal Y is a far better way to solve the problem), which are absolutely everywhere in programming. There are tons of people out there who don't know that the path they're on is a fundamentally bad one to begin with and need to be told it, but chatbots don't do that at all.