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I was thinking about this last night. GPT can do in-sample tasks quite well such as generic CRUD stuff, leetcode, and the like. Its going to have limited knowl
by LarsDu88 4y ago
I was thinking about this last night. GPT can do in-sample tasks quite well such as generic CRUD stuff, leetcode, and the like.
Its going to have limited knowledge of internal company APIs and classes -- especially poorly designed ones. To use it effectively, as a software engineer, you need to grok the code to even write a prompt.
In that sense, since 70% of software is maintenance (rather than greenfield), most software engineers will be ok.
- Spooky23 4y agoNot necessarily. The armies of low end programmers will be eliminated, just like the COBOL jockeys were. That makes it easier to isolate legacy cruft and reduce the number of people.
- EFreethought 4y agoCompanies will automate what they can, offshore what is left, and then complain they just cannot find good talent. Maybe it is time to find something else to do with my life.
- ctoth 4y agoBut surely the cost to finetune the model on the company codebase is less than onboarding a new engineer for a year?