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Agreed. There is quickly going to be a bigger chasm between the best devs and average/bad devs bc of LLMs.
by Shindi 4y ago
Agreed. There is quickly going to be a bigger chasm between the best devs and average/bad devs bc of LLMs.
- Swizec 4y agoYes. The best race car drivers use an automatic transmission if that’s 0.5 seconds faster per lap. In fact driver aids had to be actively banned in many racing series. Just to make it more fun for spectators.
- pleb_nz 4y agoAnd often hand crafted guys have more character, story and quality behind them and people often pay more for them. So goes both ways sometimes.
- skor 4y agothis. when a programmer cannot explain how something works and just say, “oh this part was generated” ... well, thats worthless, because there is no ownership of knowledge.
- throwaway290 4y agoPerformance with auto transmission says less about the driver but more about the tech team. And yes, the point of these racing regulations is to make it at least optically a driver skill competition, not just who can throw more money at a pretty mundane challenge of getting from A to B the fastest. (If not for those regulations, since the track is known to the centimeter, the fastest driver would probably be the lightest one because it would be dead weight.) Thankfully software engineering challenges are far from mundane, so the chasm will indeed grow
- Swizec 4y ago> Thankfully software engineering challenges are far from mundane, so the chasm will indeed grow Yes, if you let AI/tooling/interns do the mundane parts, you’ll have more time for the good parts
- throwaway290 4y agoIf your bottleneck is typing speed, sure maybe...
- Swizec 4y agoThat's what makes them the mundane parts.
- throwaway290 4y agoTry DRY. I find typing the furthest from performance bottleneck
- dahfizz 4y ago> If not for those regulations, since the track is known to the centimeter, the fastest driver would probably be the lightest one because it would be dead weight. Maybe if everyone took turns setting times. But in a real race, you have to deal with traffic, figure out how to pass, etc.
- throwaway290 4y ago> Maybe if everyone took turns setting times. Time attack is a type of race. But anyway, if "other racing cars" is the only real variable it's hardly a challenge for autopilot software and the driver may as well be gone. Regulations exist since traditional mainstream audience may not find this show quite as engaging. Again, the analogy is broken. Automatic transmission, full autopilot, these things would objectively help win the race (if make it boring), but creating good software is a little more involved than "who can type faster".
- jacquesm 4y agoInevitably that would lead to the driver being phased out at some point.
- hcks 4y agoThis is just wishful thinking of course. The shell itself is an outdated piece of technology that unfortunately has to be used for historical reasons. I’m glad we now see a way to work past it.
- MereInterest 4y agoWhat would you describe as a better tool? GUIs definitely aren’t it, as they can’t be composed together. APIs are great when they exist, but are often far too verbose for one-off tasks. Relevant here, a GPT-powered shell throws away the repeatability and predictability that shells have. There’s nothing to say that a different random seed or a little more training data won’t change the interpretation of a task that was specified in the vagaries of natural language.
- indymike 4y agoPlease point me to something better.