Consider not anthropomorphizing software.
How about we stop calling things without agency agents?
Code generators are useful software. Perhaps we should unbundle them from prose generators.
How about we stop calling things without agency agents?
Code generators are useful software. Perhaps we should unbundle them from prose generators.
As for anthropomorphizing software - we've been doing it for a long time. We have software that reads and writes data. Originally those were things that only humans did. But over time these words gained another meaning.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agent
And it’s not like all of the other definitions were restricted to “human agency”.
> Code generators are useful software.
How about we stop baking praise for the object of criticism into our critique.
No one is hearing your criticism.
They hear "Code generators are useful software" and go on with their day.
If you want to make your point effectively, stop kowtowing to our AI overlords.
I think code generators are useful, but that one of the trade-offs of using them is that it encourages people to anthropomorphize the software because they are also prose generators. I'm arguing that these two functions don't necessarily need to be bundled.