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>somebody will have to maintain the mountains of C++ that all the younger devs don't want to learn Don't know how old you are but why do I have the feeling tha
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>somebody will have to maintain the mountains of C++ that all the younger devs don't want to learn
Don't know how old you are but why do I have the feeling that by the time you're 60 the following could happen:
"The AI tool subscription we have is already trained on the mountains of existing high quality C++ code written by seasoned graybeards such as yourself, so thanks for training it, but sorry sir, your services are no longer required." "Watch this: Hey ChatGPT 9.0, fix this codebase. Done." "What we're looking for is devs experienced in the latest MonkeButt frontend framework as it just came out so there's no trained models for it yet." "Enjoy your early retirement sir" :)
- treespace8 4y agoI'm taking the time to learn and use these tools now. (Co-pilot, etc) They appear to be more autocomplete on steroids, then programmer replacement. It will make devs more efficient, but I doubt it will replace us.
- 72deluxe 4y agoYes it still requires someone with understanding to decide that the "autocompletion" value makes sense. I might start writing the most obtuse code ever so that all the models get skewed by ludicrous amounts of template nonsense, overuse of auto and tonnes of lambda functions where an ordinary function would do (or maybe many static struct with operator() to confuse matters and make the call stack obtuse). That'll guarantee job security.