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Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways (spectrum.ieee.org)
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use LLM-generated code extensively in my role as CEO of Carrington Labs, a provider of predictive-analytics risk models for lenders.

Well you know where not to buy now...

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, I read that and thought “this has all the problems of the garden of forking paths”

Based on the description, the whole company is just p-hacking. There’s a reason why nobody uses stepwise feature selection, you just replaced the evaluation/step mechanism with AI.