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Neither of you is going to be a taxi driver because taxi driving is easier to automate than software engineering. Part of me is pessimistic about AI programmin

Neither of you is going to be a taxi driver because taxi driving is easier to automate than software engineering. Part of me is pessimistic about AI programming tools, part of me thinks they’ll only enhance the agency of existing programmers. Either way taxi driving is probably easier to automate and only requires modifications to Tesla’s self driving tech.

commandlinefan 5y ago
> pessimistic about AI programming tools I suspect that these tools (if they do anything at all, anyway) will just make it harder to learn programming as a newcomer - just as all the advances in programming that have come about in my lifetime have. IDE's are great, until they do something you didn't expect, and then you have to understand what it is they're automating in order to figure out how to get them to do what it is you really want. Try explaining a Java classpath or dependency problem to somebody who's never opened a command-line terminal before. Docker is great - until it expects to find something that you happen to not have installed. What will probably happen here is that you and I will be fine, because we'll be able to effortlessly wield these new tools as they're just doing quickly what we used to do slowly, but new students to programming will have an even steeper hill to climb than we did.