People read too many sci-fi books and then project their fantasies on to real-world technologies. This stuff is incredibly powerful and will have social effects, but it’s not going to replace every single job by next year.
Have you tried asking it to generate a regex to transform your list into a CSV?
Now we have devs asking AI to generate regex formulas and pasting it into code without much concern on its validity.
Bad developers do bad regexes, regardless of whether they used AI.
kids these days and their lack of exposure to finite automata
- How so? I don't think it's possible to test for all cases...
- Well, it's easy, assuming a car on a non-branching track, moving with a constant speed and without any realistic external influences on it, you can simply calculate the distance traveled using the formula s = v/t. Ah, I wish I'd stop running into fools not knowing Newton's first law of motion...
- ??? Are you well?
I believe finite state modeling is used at NASA, A google search brings up a few references (that I'm probably not qualified to speak to), and I also remember hearing/reading a lecture on how they use them to make completely verifiable programs but can't find the exact one at the moment.
But not all regexes (eg, those using PCRE extensions afaik) are amenable to such a treatment. Those you just tend to hope they work.
The issue is with ChatGPT formatting a file.
All you have to do is survive long enough as an unemployed criminal until the system gets round to exonerating you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
"The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved Post Office Limited pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts, which had in fact been caused by faults in Horizon, accounting software developed and maintained by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office. Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but not convicted, forced to cover Horizon shortfalls with their own money, or had their contracts terminated. The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of livelihoods and homes, debts and bankruptcies, took a heavy toll on the victims and their families, leading to stress, illness, family breakdown, and at least four suicides. In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.
Although many subpostmasters had reported problems with the new software, and Fujitsu was aware that Horizon contained software bugs as early as 1999, the Post Office insisted that Horizon was robust and failed to disclose knowledge of the faults in the system during criminal and civil cases.
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challenge their convictions in the courts and, in 2020, led to the government establishing an independent inquiry into the scandal. This was upgraded into a statutory public inquiry the following year. As of May 2024, the public inquiry is ongoing and the Metropolitan Police are investigating executives from the Post Office and its software provider, Fujitsu.
Courts began to quash convictions from December 2020. By February 2024, 100 of the subpostmasters' convictions had been overturned. Those wrongfully convicted became eligible for compensation, as did more than 2,750 subpostmasters who had been affected by the scandal but had not been convicted."