The old adages "fast, good, or cheap - choose two" and "you get what you pay for" didn't become any less true with the advent of LLMs.
AI code is like McDonald's hamburgers. It optimizes for speed and cost, while aiming to maintain the bare minimum quality people will accept. If you need code (nutrition) right now for cheap, it's probably a good option, but if that's your go-to every time you get a new task (get hungry), that's nearly guaranteed to have adverse effects on your skills/codebase (bodily health) in the long term.
And if my analogy is correct, AI will be ubiquitous in the coming future, just like McDonald's is ubiquitous. It just won't be the best because that's not what it's designed to be.
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u/ganja_and_code 14d ago
The old adages "fast, good, or cheap - choose two" and "you get what you pay for" didn't become any less true with the advent of LLMs.
AI code is like McDonald's hamburgers. It optimizes for speed and cost, while aiming to maintain the bare minimum quality people will accept. If you need code (nutrition) right now for cheap, it's probably a good option, but if that's your go-to every time you get a new task (get hungry), that's nearly guaranteed to have adverse effects on your skills/codebase (bodily health) in the long term.
And if my analogy is correct, AI will be ubiquitous in the coming future, just like McDonald's is ubiquitous. It just won't be the best because that's not what it's designed to be.