> I've used AI to move multi thousand line codebases between languages.
And are you certain you’ve reviewed all use cases to make sure no errors were introduced?
I recently tried using Google’s AI assistant for some basic things like creating a function that could parse storage size in the format of 12KB, or 34TB into an actual number of bytes. It confidently gave me amount, units = s.split() which just is not correct. Even added a comment explaining what that line is meant to do.
This was an obvious case that just didn’t work. But imagine it did work but flew into an infinite loop on an input like “12KB7” or some such.
And are you certain you’ve reviewed all use cases to make sure no errors were introduced?
I recently tried using Google’s AI assistant for some basic things like creating a function that could parse storage size in the format of 12KB, or 34TB into an actual number of bytes. It confidently gave me amount, units = s.split() which just is not correct. Even added a comment explaining what that line is meant to do.
This was an obvious case that just didn’t work. But imagine it did work but flew into an infinite loop on an input like “12KB7” or some such.