> Should I keep doing so?
I do, but, incidentally, in reporting exactly one of the above posts, I asked the same question (even worded similarly) together with the report...
Now policies on this site are decided by what appears to be part of ST's marketing, who then don't make their decisions based on strictly technical considerations and have followed "modern trends" in the past (see "modern feel and look" etc.) While those posts here are quite clearly just attempts at spam sanitized by the "first poster can't post links" (which sometimes appears not to work for reasons... ) policy, thus even marketing will dismiss them; a non-technical person may be lured to think they may be useful, both by the fad, and the apparent "knowledgeability" of these posts (underlined by the particular language it was taught to use, which again appeals to many nontechnical people - not coincidentally, it was designed to do so, these things are aimed to sell to masses primarily).
Regardless, my personal position is clear: by its principial working, there's no Intelligence in AI, thus it can't contribute wisdom. Where it appears to do so, there's already a substantial lack of basics, which I believe is not the case here. Would ST be willing to invest substantially in the basic, well-structured learning material accomplished by concise examples, rather than just pushing "libraries" and clicky generators, the difference between real knowledge and the glorified web search engine AI in fact is, would be crystal clear to anybody.
This is not to say AI can't be useful, just not in places where many people think now they may be - and they are deliberately made to believe so by the AI promoters.
As a particular example, AI is said to know to program, and is said to replace programmers in the near future (remember, AI needs to be sold, so needs to appeal to managers, who have the powers to buy). Those, who are scared by this perspective, should think 1. whether they do real programming with putting in structures and algorithms or just fill in forms; and then 2. whether they really want to work under management which can't recognize their value.
The fact, that AI appears to be able to lightning fast put together programs which do apparently impressive stuff tells much about the programming environment of today. It's dominated by tools which "does things" for the programmer, who does not need to and is not even willing to take responsibility for, so he's told he does not need to worry about documentation (which in turn does not even exist materially). This created a world, where doing outwardly impressive things requires excessive search among the vast amounts of libraries and functions, just because there does not exist a well structured documentation for them (as an example, see "doxygen" "autodocumentation" plague) nor a coordinated, comprehensive set of (again, concise and well-documented) examples. The mechanical search engine may appear to win in such environment.
Or, to put it into context of mcus, the value of programmer is not in the ability to type printf("Hello, world"); , but the ability to use that in the variable peripheral environment of mcus, the ability to use it in context e.g. while debugging, the ability to recognize where is it inappropriate to use (e.g. in memory-constrained applications, in interrupts), the ability to replace it with any other method as appropriate.
AI surely can type printf("Hello, world"); very quickly.
Have a nice weekend!
JW
