It would be great if it worked perfectly, but it’s like self-driving cars — just out of reach, and much more complicated to get right than most people understand.
It’s not even close to that at the moment though, which is why a end up with questions like this, where we had to guess that it was AI:
and this, where we ignored all of the AI attempts and solved the problem in less time than it took to enter the AI prompts in the first place, ending up with code that we understood how it works:
My two concerns is that people will trust the AI “solutions” to be more correct than they might be, missing potentially critical edge cases; and that we will be encouraging a decline in understanding how things really work.
I genuinely fear that this is the tip of an iceberg that will haunt us for years to come. AI should be confined to specific tasks like helping flag up cancer identification in scans.