Summary MDN's new "ai explain" button on code blocks generates human-like text that may be correct by happenstance, or may contain convincing falsehoods. this is a strange decision for a technical ...
That example someone posted where the AI refused to explain the oklch CSS functional notation, and instead said it doesn’t exist, pretty much exemplifies why this is a bad idea, although I can see how maybe there was good intentions by whoever implemented it.
In my opinion, the “AI explain” is unnecessary, as I find the MDN contributors already do an excellent job of explaining things as-is, especially in the Examples section under the documentation itself
maybe there was good intentions by whoever implemented it
If an executive saying “find ways to use ChatGPT so we can be on the cutting edge” and a developer saying “eh, I guess maybe…” counts as good intentions.
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That example someone posted where the AI refused to explain the
oklchCSS functional notation, and instead said it doesn’t exist, pretty much exemplifies why this is a bad idea, although I can see how maybe there was good intentions by whoever implemented it.In my opinion, the “AI explain” is unnecessary, as I find the MDN contributors already do an excellent job of explaining things as-is, especially in the Examples section under the documentation itself
If an executive saying “find ways to use ChatGPT so we can be on the cutting edge” and a developer saying “eh, I guess maybe…” counts as good intentions.
Agreed, and the questions I have that MDN doesn’t answer would probably be ones even less likely for the AI explain to get right.