Programming is difficult. Programming is more than just the "coding". Establishing requirements, designing structure of code that is maintainable and easy to understand (and thus update), and testing with adequate use cases are the hard parts. These are the marks of good programming and good programmers. If programming is difficult, so by extension is an “AI” app. Where AI fails is at almost every point except coding. Establishing and understanding requirements, being able to know how to structure code, and knowing how to test it are certainly not “machine friendly”. I will share a couple of incidents that highlighted these concepts to me. After that, I will consider fallout, costs and liability. Case #1 : My wife is a Type 1 Diabetic. Before she started using an insulin pump, she used “Kwikpens” for long acting insulin. Suddenly, out of the clear blue sky, she started receiving texts and emails saying that her doctor’s prescription for the Kwikpens urgentl...
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