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I asked them about this! They do indeed see it as a tool, and thought it was doing a semantic code analysis, not running it per se, but something like static code analysis. Which again is I think reasonable because their IDE was showing tooltips with the value of the variable, at least the initial assignment, so why wouldnt the chatbot be able to do that?
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  @libroraptor @jonny the term "artificial intelligence" has been marketing jargon since it was coined in 1954, it's never referred to any specific technology - it's selling the dream of your plastic pal who's fun to be with, especially when you don't have to pay him |
@jonny I think that it's a brilliant tool. (And my colleagues do not like me to say this.)
But what does your programmer think LLMs do?
I offered a different conceptualisation to my colleagues by giving them Markov chains to play with, but they seemed to think even random prose generators were still creative, thinking agents, albeit of a less intelligent form.
I've been finding also that hardly anyone who complains about AI knows what a huge class of things it is. Language is troubling.