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And that’s fine for the average HN audience; what disturbs me is that hiring managers see articles like “I had ChatGPT rewrite my code and it went 100000% faste
by tombert 4y ago
And that’s fine for the average HN audience; what disturbs me is that hiring managers see articles like “I had ChatGPT rewrite my code and it went 100000% faster!!!”, and then decide that they don’t need more than one engineer.
If we could automate away engineers that’s fine with me, but i just don’t think that ChatGPT is there yet. I actually think Wolfram is kind of onto something with having ChatGPT work with Alpha to be used for stuff that has “objective” answers.
- ryokeken 4y agothat's what unions are for if only an engineer could engineer a solution to what afflicts unions, dat be great
- alfalfasprout 4y agoThe comment above captures it well though-- many of us aren't just writing stuff you can copy/paste from stackoverflow. When you're working on things where you're operating with internal business concepts and data with set meanings the difficulty is rarely writing the code but rather reasoning about how to cleanly approach the problem in the first place. The thing is, the hiring managers reacting like that to ChatGPT are also the same folks who would've considered outsourcing engineering anyways to one of those offshore "consultancies". Tools like ChatGPT will ultimately be a replacement for use cases where you've already fully scoped out what to build and how to build it and the implementation is straightforward.