Stability AI Farts Out Some Code-Generating Model No One Asked For

So, get this. Stability AI, these guys with too much time on their hands, decided to bombard us with a new language-learning model called StableCode. It’s going to come in a base model, an instruction model, and a long-context-window model because, ya know, why the hell not overcomplicate things even more?

The Painful Potential Implications

The thing about these models is, they may fundamentally change the way we interact with software development. If accurate, they could reduce the need for human programmers (yeah, good luck with that), the poor sods. We are staring down the barrel of seeing code being churned out more efficiently than the sloppy mess that humans manage to make of it. Of course, the long-context-window model might offer more complex solutions but with AI as usual, expect disastrous misinterpretations of context and nuanced problems because it has the understanding of a toddler with a spoon.

The Hot Take – Or, a Cold Slap of Reality

Look, if anyone tells you that this is the future, remember the same was said about Google Glass and we all know how that ended. While sure, it might make programming more efficient, but isn’t it also just paving the way for laziness? Are we simply going to become seat warmers, trusting what a piece of code churns out? Let’s face it, StableCode is just another over-hyped tool that will probably end up as just as underwhelming as its predecessors. Keep coding, nerds.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/stability-ai-launches-stablecode-an-llm-for-code-generation/