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I agree with the general sentiment. I have heard more doom and gloom about the end of the software industry in the last week than I think I ever have in my car

I agree with the general sentiment. I have heard more doom and gloom about the end of the software industry in the last week than I think I ever have in my career. But the question that keeps popping into my head is, "What would the process of laying off all the devs and replacing them with ChatGPT even look like?". And the truth is, I don't see any way it could work. Too many questions. Would product owners interface with the language model directly? Would they trust it to do devops? to debug? What would happen if the behavior of the system wasn't quite what they wanted? What if they ran into situations that required very in depth analysis of performance via logging? Would/Could a large language model orchestrate all of this? At the end of the day, what devs are paid for is their knowledge of a complex system. That is always going to be needed.

MuffinFlavored 4y ago
> "What would the process of laying off all the devs and replacing them with ChatGPT even look like?". Why does it have to be all or none? Why can't it be incredibly incremental? > At the end of the day, what devs are paid for is their knowledge of a complex system. I've turned to ChatGPT to answer questions to things I don't know 2-3 times this week. I can only imagine where this technology is headed in the next 5 years. However, you can make the argument that I knew "exactly" how to game it/what to ask because of my experience. I used what I know to ask specifically for what I don't know. :)
- lupire 4y ago
  How do you know you got correct answers?
  - catchnear4321 4y ago
    Will it matter in this case?
  - sjs7007 4y ago
    Same as how you'd verify an internet answer? By trying it out. At least applies for the misc programming syntax things one might be googling.
vikramkr 4y ago
There are a lot of outsourced dev shops that honestly you wouldn't trust to do devops or to debug things anyway. It would make a lot more sense to start automation in that market and work your way up

MuffinFlavored 4y ago

> "What would the process of laying off all the devs and replacing them with ChatGPT even look like?". Why does it have to be all or none? Why can't it be incredibly incremental? > At the end of the day, what devs are paid for is their knowledge of a complex system. I've turned to ChatGPT to answer questions to things I don't know 2-3 times this week. I can only imagine where this technology is headed in the next 5 years. However, you can make the argument that I knew "exactly" how to game it/what to ask because of my experience. I used what I know to ask specifically for what I don't know. :)

lupire 4y ago
How do you know you got correct answers?
- catchnear4321 4y ago
  Will it matter in this case?
- sjs7007 4y ago
  Same as how you'd verify an internet answer? By trying it out. At least applies for the misc programming syntax things one might be googling.

vikramkr 4y ago

There are a lot of outsourced dev shops that honestly you wouldn't trust to do devops or to debug things anyway. It would make a lot more sense to start automation in that market and work your way up