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There is a lot of doom and gloom about programming and AI. However, let me talk about something to be excited for. I am really excited about LLMs taking the d

There is a lot of doom and gloom about programming and AI. However, let me talk about something to be excited for. I am really excited about LLMs taking the drudgery out of programming. There are many times what I have a project in mind that I want to do, but there is a lot of boilerplate (writing configurations, or writing tests, etc) that I have to do and slows me down or for personal projects even keeps me from doing them. However, if I have an AI assistant that I can assign all the drudgery to, and I can focus on the interesting work, I feel that my creativity can really be unleashed. I am most excited to see the results of this in games. Right now, to produce a AAA game is a lot of work and requires massive teams (if only for the art assets). However, I can see a future where once again a single programmer can write very compelling games (and even have the AI generate the art assets for the game based on the programmer's vision). I personally am looking forward to the future.

pm90 4y ago
I share this excitement as well. Currently, designing or changing systems involves quite a bit of careful thought since you have to keep all the constraints in your mind and reason about how the system would work. If tools existed to create implementations based on these designs, that would be pretty amazing. Additionally: Being able to quickly iterate on designs that translate quickly into working systems will encourage more experimentation among people who might otherwise have been turned off by the amount of technical skills required to implement designs.
bitL 4y ago
I think it will be the opposite - it will take all fun out of programming and leave just the mess around connecting different interfaces and making them work reliably in a single product, i.e. debugging with nobody having the internal knowledge how the system actually works.
- mprovost 4y ago
  I feel like this is something that people said when they started using compilers instead of manually writing assembly.
  - bitL 4y ago
    Back in those times you had more competent managers though, now the decision to generate code using AI will be made by some clueless PHB and people will be only needed to glue fragments together without actually designing the most interesting parts.
bcrosby95 4y ago
What if it works in the opposite way? You write the drudgery, the AI can handle everything else? Lots of assumptions all around.

pm90 4y ago

I share this excitement as well. Currently, designing or changing systems involves quite a bit of careful thought since you have to keep all the constraints in your mind and reason about how the system would work. If tools existed to create implementations based on these designs, that would be pretty amazing. Additionally: Being able to quickly iterate on designs that translate quickly into working systems will encourage more experimentation among people who might otherwise have been turned off by the amount of technical skills required to implement designs.

bitL 4y ago

I think it will be the opposite - it will take all fun out of programming and leave just the mess around connecting different interfaces and making them work reliably in a single product, i.e. debugging with nobody having the internal knowledge how the system actually works.

mprovost 4y ago
I feel like this is something that people said when they started using compilers instead of manually writing assembly.
- bitL 4y ago
  Back in those times you had more competent managers though, now the decision to generate code using AI will be made by some clueless PHB and people will be only needed to glue fragments together without actually designing the most interesting parts.

bcrosby95 4y ago

What if it works in the opposite way? You write the drudgery, the AI can handle everything else? Lots of assumptions all around.