Re^3: What's your view on AI coding assistants?

[bliako]

All in all, artificial and human intelligence teamed up to push the envelope of stupidity even further. Good news for this team is that Einstein conjured, I guess after ample experience, that the stupidity horizon is infinite. So plenty of ground there before this bubble bursts.

I also see how miniscule these "academic" types, for example the "mathematician Thomas Bloom", seem today. The maintainer of *THE* Erdos Problems website was unaware of 10 solutions and 11 more breakthroughs on the one and only field that his site specialises and is being advertised as such. Bloom gets away with just "I was unaware".

[LanX]

The website already lists 1105 problems, and the creator doesn't claim that his hobby project is "*THE* Erdos Problems website"°

If you had a grasp how many publications are made every day, you'd know how hard it is already to read only the relevant ones.

And Erdős has such a prolific output and impact in the math community, that the Erdős number was created.

°) Which BTW can't be very old. From the FAQ

> This website was made by Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who likes to think about the problems Erdős posed. Technical assistance with setting up the code for the website was provided by ChatGPT ¹ and the logo was made by Midjourney. Since this website was launched, many people have helped with spotting typos and pointing to updated references, or suggesting new problems. These people are credited individually under each relevant problem.

¹) LOL

[LanX]

> that Einstein conjured, I guess after ample experience, that the stupidity horizon is infinite.

he most likely never said this:

wikiquote: Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.

Quotes attributed to Einstein are another bubble of stupidity.

More and more are generated every year since he's dead.

Be careful, don't buy them.