Mastodawn

Star Trek has, in the past, been cited as accurately predicting future technologies and designs. The flip phone, the iPad, voice assistants, etc... But allow me to submit: Lazy use of AI coding:

In TNG's "Elementary, Dear Data", instead of modifying the program like a good software engineer, Geordi is lazy (and in cosplay), so he just verbally asks the computer: "Create an opponent capable of defeating Data."

So what does the computer do? It makes a fucking hologram program SENTIENT.
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Geekman

The whole engineering crew can't fucking figure out how this happened. They're baffled. The computer just decided to execute the request in the most dangerous way possible.

Turns out that this was a fucking realistic depiction of how computers work in the future.

All because Geordi was too lazy to adjust the program parameters by hand.

Don't be like Geordi. Write and proof your own code.
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