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Truly speaking, you can use AI for a little bit higher abstraction and ambiguity, but not much. For instance, if you need an iteration over an array and you want to do a very specific aggregation you can instruct AI to write this loop but you yourself need to understand exactly what it’s doing and have a very clear idea how this code snippet fits into the larger picture
If the last sentence had been: Probably I will never figure that out. Then I would have said that you are on the right track.
it's a way to express steps in a continuum (given by the context): - not close (1) - close (2) - very close (3) - arrived (4) That's how language works. It's not mathematics and uses "salt and pepper" to convey the message as accurately as possible.
Good intentions, indeed. Creating lots of steering committee slides, I know about the wish from the audience of a simpler language. But ‘very close’ is different from ‘close’. It’s not just salt and pepper but trying to articulate a complex and nuanced reality. And yes, research papers then sound a bit less solid and complete- sorry, but often this is the reality you should not hide.