Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Autocomplete isn’t AI. It’s string recognition which predates AI by about 35 years.

  T9 predictive texting definitely didn’t contain AI, but was absolutely a thing for a really long time.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    There are 2 versions these days.

    One powered by AI that can complete the rest of your function, and regular that is typically only the word you are working on.

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• fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  And more and more engineers use genAI to generate code. Hell, even I do, because it's superb at getting the boilerplate ready from standard definitions, allowing me to focus on the important bits.

  LLMs are also pretty great at extrapolating a good working document from basic requirements.

  They're really just a quite knowledgeable but inexperienced intern, and any software engineer that refuses to utilise them to some extent will be left behind - just like those who refused to move to IDEs with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and other helper tools.

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• froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i think it’s impossible totally exclude ai from a developing process nowadays (you googled something? you use ai. etc.), but not having generated images/assets/texts is realistic

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  It’s called lexical analysis or lexical tokenization. It existed long before LLMs, it doesn’t rely on stolen code, and doesn’t consume a small village’s worth of electricity. Superficial parallels with chatbots do not make it AI – it’s a fucking algorithm.

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• spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I assume it refers to assets and mechanics that actively involve AI. If you’re using Copilot to finish your switch case, I don’t think that would count.

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