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Become a senior software engineer so that you have enough skills to use the AI to generate mostly functioning code and manually fix what it doesn't get correct?
by jareds 4y ago
Become a senior software engineer so that you have enough skills to use the AI to generate mostly functioning code and manually fix what it doesn't get correct?
- GianFabien 4y agoWriting prompts to an AI to generate anything but trivial (CRUD?) code will become like writing design specifications. Domain knowledge is going to become increasingly more critical.
- vba616 4y agoProgramming hasn't been a thing for about 60 years now, since they figured out how to make computers program themselves. I have somewhere a report from an engineer at GE in the 1950s, about how programming was about to become obsolete with the advent of FORTRAN. He explained that the FORTRAN compiler would allow engineers to enter (slightly modified) equations directly into the computer and bypass the clerical tasks of specifying machine instructions, assigning addresses for code and storage and suchlike. While many people were skeptical that computer-generated code could be as efficient as hand-written, his belief was that eliminating the bottleneck of programming a problem would increase utilization of the computer and provide a net win. Anyway, history proved him right.
- catchnear4321 4y agoCode reviews without coworkers.