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Re:Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of ... by bluetwo on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:01PM (#27785835)
A good lawyer, like a good programmer isn't valued just on their output, but on the questions they ask that lead them to the correct output. This is much more difficult to encode.
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Re:Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of ... by Jeff_Brown on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:20PM (#27786063)
It's an interesting comparison, law and code. GitHub's AI gets a sense of what you're trying to do, and tries to move the ball forward. Sometimes the context it has is enough to do that. It's better with verbose languages.

Law can be pretty verbose. Given half a paragraph, how often can an intelligence (artificial or natural) deduce what's next?

Of course the coding AI has the advantage that coders write (and publish) comments.

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Re:Automating programming: AI is transforming the coding of ... by kwhitefoot on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:29PM (#27786176)
> coders write (and publish) comments.

And writers in law write commentaries, some of them having great authority.

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