Post by @paul
I have always assumed that when people tell me they programmed something, they will know the thing they have made, have spent time understanding the parameters, the fileformats to deal with etc.
Appearantly that's not the case anymore. *sigh*
@sotolf@polymaths.social one of my clients is starting to pretty heavily create "apps" using AI - basically visual interfaces that do some calculations with hard coded data than actually connected to anything.
But this causes me two problems -
- they're hosting them on personal free tiers of "hot-hoster-of-the-mobth.com" so their respective businesses have no control over them
- for the proof of concepts that have been designed with hard coded data, there is absolutely no allowance for the actual back end work and connectivity to data sources. It's all just "look! Pretty buttons!".
I had to say yesterday in an AI policy meeting that, the same as with needing a human to check the accuracy of AI "facts", they also need to prove they understand every line of code in the output - they won't of course because then they need to put in effort an actually learn something 🙄
@paul I don't get it, I also don't get people trying to pass AI stuff off as their own work, and then when I ask a simple question about something extremely basic, or why they used one container rather than the other or something they have no clue.
I mean the least thing they could do is to be honest about it. I will judge them and they know that, but it's not like I'm going to be any happier about them lying to my face as well.
And yeah, people who don't know what they are doing, and then hosting stuff open like that, yeah, it's horrible, I really wish I would be back in the 90s at times.
Oof I think I'm getting old :p
@sotolf@polymaths.social absolutely agree.
I told the owners of the business yesterday that I understand they are finding it fun, but if they don't understand it they are playing with fire. They could go to sleep one night and their business is gone in the morning because AI put a private key in the JavaScript.
Noting all of this is being done with personal accounts, so isn't fit for business use anyway, let alone proper development processes. I showed them the actual prices and recommended, if they want to use AI, they subscribe to an enterprise plan in the full knowledge the bill will be higher than that expect, and then we have another discussion later.