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AZJonnie

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3. "The human is still needed to understand the problem at a high level and give prompts to the AI"

Reply to erronis (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:25 PM

23 hrs ago

For now.

In this case, a human seemingly came up with the idea for a reddit-like forum for AI agents to have conversations on, and provided specs and vision and prompts.

How long until AI can do all those same things on its own, i.e. up and decide that the world lacks a reddit-like forum of that nature, and that it would have value if one existed, and then know exactly how to execute the creation thereof without almost no human interaction in the process at all?

Another year, maybe?

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How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts -- Brian Krebs [View all] erronis Yesterday OP

The tech nerd side of me goes WOW about what all AI can do now AZJonnie Yesterday #1

I've been programming since the early 1960s and still continue. I'm ambivalent about what's happening. erronis Yesterday #2

"The human is still needed to understand the problem at a high level and give prompts to the AI" AZJonnie 23 hrs ago #3

The AI models still hallucinate. highplainsdem 18 hrs ago #7

True, but it remains to be seen whether there will still be any jobs for human coding grunts in a year or two AZJonnie 17 hrs ago #9

See replies 4 and 5. highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #10

Not terribly secure code. I've posted a number of threads about this. The most recent: highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #4

And using AI dumbs down developers pretty quickly: highplainsdem 23 hrs ago #5

Not just developers. Here's a well-written piece about what it does to students in school. erronis 22 hrs ago #6

Thanks for that link! I've posted some threads here warning about AI's potential to dumb people down highplainsdem 18 hrs ago #8

If an AI can do it, is it really anything new? hunter 16 hrs ago #11