author: @sleepyfox
title: The problem with AI coders
date: 22-Jun-2022
The problem with 'solutions' like GitHub's Copilot, and similar tech, is that it frames the problem as a problem of search. The programmer is searching for some code that does a thing (produce a HTML table with alternating coloured background rows of green and red), and that they just need to find that thing. Machine Learning has had success in this area, just look at Google's page-rank 'algorithm'.