Comment by username223
6 days ago
If calculators were unreliable... Well, we'd be screwed if everyone blindly trusted them and never learned math.
They'd also be a whole lot less useful. Calculators are great because they always do exactly what you tell them. It's the same with compilers, almost: imagine if your C compiler did the right thing 99.9% of the time, but would make inexplicable errors 0.1% of the time, even on code that had previously worked correctly. And then CPython worked 99.9% of the time, except it was compiled by a C compiler working 99.9% of the time, ...
But bringing it back on-topic, in a world where software is AI-generated, and tests are AI-generated (because they're repetitive, and QA is low-status), and user complaints are all fielded by chat-bots (because that's cheaper than outsourcing), I don't see how anyone develops any expertise, or how things keep working.
Early calculators were unreliable. Assume that AI based coding will improve.
What early calculators were unreliable?
I’m unaware of any, but even if there is an example it was before they were in widespread use.