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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they meant that coders can run their code and find out if it works or not but lawyers would have to stand in front of a judge or other legally powerful entity and discover the hard way that the LLM outputted statements were essentially gobbledygook.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

But code that doesn’t crash isn’t necessarily code that works. And even for code made by humans, we sometimes do find out the hard way, and it can sometimes impact an arbitrarily large number of people.