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This is just not true, never did any current "AI" more than the imagination of it's creators. What is this mystical "future AI" that makes every software devel
by sek 10y ago
This is just not true, never did any current "AI" more than the imagination of it's creators.
What is this mystical "future AI" that makes every software developer or engineer suddenly obsolete. Maybe creative thought requires a brain and nothing will ever beat human reproduction in producing engineers.
- rublev 10y agoI'm surprised the app dev I do hasn't been automated away already.
- adzicg 10y agobut it has to a large extent. 20 years ago I did linting by hand, efficient memory allocation was a key skill for a developer, and now that's all taken over by computers. Going further back, I used to be able to beat a C compiler in optimising assembly code, which now I wouldn't even know where to start. Even further back, things like compiling and linking were done by hand. Most developers today use automated builds, packaging, test runners, app genertors and so on. Automation in software development is already there, it's been present from almost day 0, but it has so far been aimed at assisting humans, not completely replacing them.
- majewsky 10y agoOf course it's aimed at replacing people. We're just not fast enough compared to how many tasks are being piled on year after year.
- ThomPete 10y agoYou are missing the point here. Even if humans are better it will require fewer and fewer of them as more and more will be dealt with by sub-algorithms. Also I dont thin you realize little magic there is in imagination. Computers can dream, thats what it requires to imagine. The rest is just about finding proper context that fits humans needs, but even that is learnable by machines. So the question you should be asking is what mystical human ability is imagination that it can't be done by machines. But again even if it was always outside of human abilities it wouldn't require more but less developers over time.