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It sounds like somebody's got a case of the WFH movement is gutting middle management ;) In all seriousness though, this stuff is sobering to say the least. It
by benreesman 4y ago
It sounds like somebody's got a case of the WFH movement is gutting middle management ;)
In all seriousness though, this stuff is sobering to say the least. It's dangerous to extrapolate from 80% to 100%, but it's entirely possible that these things get good enough to take a meaningful bite out of software jobs.
It would be supremely ironic if after a decade of thinking taxi and truck drivers were going to be put out of work it turns out computer programmers have their jobs threatened by generative models sooner!
- int_19h 4y agoAfter looking at the outputs for anything reasonably complicated, well... If this steals our bread, then we deserve it.
- qzw 4y agoStackoverflow is probably just going to be filled with "What prompt do I need to write to get my AI to output the code I want?" questions instead.
- qzw 4y agoIt would be ironic indeed, but the whole thing with "taxi and truck drivers will soon be made obsolete by AI" was also based on extrapolating from 80% to 100% (IIRC, Uber was saying they'd be completely driverless by 2025).