> In my opinion, using AI tools for programming at the moment, unless in a sandboxed environment and on a toy project, is just ludicrous.
Well put.
The fundamental flaw is in trying to employ nondeterministic content generation based on statistical relevance defined by an unknown training data set, which is what commercial LLM offerings are, in an effort to repeatably produce content satisfying a strict mathematical model (program source code).
Humans are far less deterministic than LLMs, yet presumably are acceptable for writing program source code?
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