absulitFeb 9

Last year, I was working with #AI agents before this new "boom". I was really amazed by it and the opportunity that only I seemed to recognize on my team.

All that faded away as soon as you realize these agents behave like little kids that provide a non deterministic answer each time; and to answer my PM the question "why this doesn't work all the time?" with "IDK" was not enough.

#aislop #aiagent #artificialintelligence

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I think the hard part for me as a developer is to explain to non tech staff in a company why this that seems to spit out coherent results is not good enough. Even now it's hard to put it to words, but all I can say is that the ones who know (something, any subject) can't explain it because we don't have the intermediate language for it
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I heard once that the best people to explain something are the ones who recently learnt a subject. I think the longer the time it passes those mental connections to regular language vanish and a concept can't be explained, it can only be "thought", and you might end up explaining something in jargon
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My point here is that, only experienced developers know letting AI touch everything is a bad idea, but we are so knee deep into the waters of code that we can't explain why, but I do have an analogy
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Years ago I was working on a Python project. That was the backend of an Angular project. I finished my part and I was done, but higher ups decided to move me to the Angular side I didn't know anything about. My coworker knew a great deal of it so I used him as my search engine, I asked him everything, and why not if he was just there. This was nice and all until one day he was gone because he resigned a month before

#webdev #javascript #python #ai

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So now I was in a project I barely knew the stack and my information resource was gone... I learned my lesson and decided to never rely again later on coworkers about a project...

I never felt that feeling again except when I started to work with AI agents... you feel a dependency, you feel like you can't do it without it, you feel like you are not enough. But you are.

So when tragedy strikes and it will, it could be a crash on the Prod app or your coworker resigns... you have to be ready

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Don't rely on an external agent, being that a human or a #AI to do your work, because in the end it is you who are responsible.

#ai #webdev #javascript #python