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TIL: AI. Thoughts on AI (cocoaphony.micro.blog)
26 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


So what do we call "AI" now that "AI" has come to mean GenAI? You know how there used to be this field called "Artificial Intelligence", of which a subset was Machine Learning, of which a subset was Deep Learning, of which a subset was LLMs..? Does that have a name anymore...?


> The better approach is to tell the AI “write a script to rename PersonRecord to Person, and then run that script.”

Cursor will do that conversion for you automatically via tool use (e.g. grep in this case).

This a great article though - I find being forced to write the requirements clearly and having an LLM review your final work, etc. can really help you to write better code in a sort of rubber duck debugging way too.




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