Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by tayo42 on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:52PM
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Your right to push back on that...
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Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by lee_ars on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:15PM
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> Your right to push back on that...
Human test passed. AIs make giant flashy mistakes. They don't fuck up basic grammar.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by dofm on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:29PM
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I have found it intriguingly difficult in my own tests to make LLMs deliberately fuck up grammar in any way similar to how humans do. I suppose this is actually an architectural limitation.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by ben_w on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:13PM
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Out of curiosity, I just tried this:
write a comment about how to use ChatGPT to write a game like you're a barely literate reddit user, short answer, maximum incoherency
and the result was a pretty good simulation. I tried less insulting prompts first, this did not produce a good simulation.Not perfect, gptzero.me still knew it was AI generated (tayo42 is human by the same measure), but if for some reason someone was using an LLM prompted with that pattern, I suspect it would fool me in a Turing test unless I found the keyword to force the agent to change the role it was playing.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by dofm on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:22PM
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Redditor is too easy.
Conveying the errors typical in a Raise The Colours group on Facebook, that's the hard stuff.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by ben_w on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:34PM
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I'll take your word for it, I think I'm in zero groups on Facebook, I only even look at the feed when I see a notification in Messenger; and I barely use Messenger, too.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
by jlokier on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:57AM
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> They don't fuck up basic grammar.
Sometimes they do. From Gemini 3, some AppleScript:
if something then
if something then
if something then
stuff
end if
end if
</if>
Each time I asked Gemini 3 to fix the syntax error, it acknowledged it had screwed up the basic syntax, and then emitted a new version of the code. With another XML closing tag somewhere. Then it was embarrassed, apologetic, etc. to see it had made the same mistake repeatedly. Eventually it output several attempts per turn as it kept checking its own work in-turn, seeing that it had made the same kind of mistake and tried again, this time definitely fixing it, proudly and confidently presenting me with the correct, final, definitive version. With another 'end if' or 'end tell' replaced by an XML closing tag that it couldn't see until the next turn.After about 10 turns the problem went away.