[GNC] Sharing Some Changes With the GnuCash Community

[ph hermes]

i wasn't going to respond as i'm not a coder at all. my concerns are with
trusting the results and focus on humans.

i've been online since the 80s and wrote web sites on note pad. but i'm not
a coder. i think there are uses for ai as a tool ... i keep thinking of
large closed data sets: legal and medical, but they aren't doing so great
in those areas. also with the costs skyrocketing, i don't see the future
being for all of us. and we'll still need humans as several of you describe
your work, to check it, to know what  + how to ask questions in the right
way. i don't want to learn how to do that.

2ndly, search is terrible now. it doesn't even asnswer my search terms. it
has decided it knows what i really want to ask, and often it's not what i
wanted to know. it took me several tries to find out my father's date of
death (couldn't remember if is was 2001 or 2002) and google couldn't find
it. everything is now feeding on slop.

so i'm at least halfway with adrien, knowing i can't avoid it, knowing it
will be good for something, but not everything, and trying to go more
analog with everything i can (and not be stupid about it).

thanks for a great conversation.


     - ph
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paula hendricks ~:~ san francisco CA ~:~ 415.310.1168


On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 7:00 AM Ken Pyzik <pyz01 at outlook.com> wrote:

> John - Agree 100%.  Having been in IT development for many years, what is
> absolutely the best is the ability to do super-fast debugging.  LLMs can
> spot a misspelled command or a missed { or [ or a logic mismatch a zillions
> times faster than anyone can.  And as you said, it writes the code a
> zillion times faster than any of us ever could.
>
> Ken
>
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> To: adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Sharing Some Changes With the GnuCash Community
>
>
>
> > On May 26, 2026, at 21:41, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > I simply do not see how or why probabilistic word generators should be
> used for anything but novelty kicks and entertainment
>
> There’s enough code and commentary about the code on the web that the
> probability of generating what the user is asking for very high, as long as
> the user is very specific about what they want, doesn’t ask for too much at
> once, and carefully reviews and corrects the results. An LLM can “type” a
> million or more times faster than a human can, so once the user gets adept
> at writing good prompts the process is is much faster than writing the code
> oneself. I’ve heard/read many senior devs describe it as programming rocket
> fuel.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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