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I mean, probably many elementary code smells (e.g. those related to null references) just pop up over and over again in a sufficiently large code base, so an AI

I mean, probably many elementary code smells (e.g. those related to null references) just pop up over and over again in a sufficiently large code base, so an AI could reasonably be trained detect them and thus prevent some of the bugs that arise from them. But for application-level bugs, we're SOL... And luckily so, otherwise we would be jobless in a few years or so.

RangerScience 9y ago
> And luckily so, otherwise we would be jobless in a few years or so. I don't think so. You know those painful conversations with people who "have a great idea", but can't actually make it? It's not because they don't have technical skills (although they don't) - it's because they're not trained in thinking to the level of detail that implementation actually requires. Someone needs to "program the AI" (whatever that ends up meaning). That'll still be us, even if it doesn't require any code, because at some point what code actually is telling something what you want it to do. It's "the same" leap as from machine code to compilers, domain-specific languages, garbage collection, etc. You describe what you want to happen at some level of abstraction, and something interprets that to actually make it happen. The level of detail you, as the programmer, have to directly describe goes down over time, but you still deal with far more details than most other people.