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ChatGPT is no threat to SE.

VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
Famous last words. Just the other day I asked it to do something somewhat non-trivial: write an asynchronous streaming parser for Server-Sent Events in Rust using reqwest and nom. It cranked out not only working, but _sophisticated_, code that just needed some minor fixes to account for version updates in about 20 seconds. It was pretty eye opening.
- gonzo41 4y ago
  How is that not the same as a machinist spending 15 minutes in solidworks to design a peice, hitting export on the g-code, firing up the 7 axis cnc, walking out the door and coming back the next day to the finished goods. 3d printing is a great example of how this will only create more stuff. It's a threat to the low end. If you do basic stuff, your need to climb the skill ladder.
- float4 4y ago
  > write an asynchronous streaming parser for Server-Sent Events in Rust using reqwest and nom And now ask yourself how many non-SE's can even ask that question to ChatGPT.
- hardware2win 4y ago
  Sure it can give you cool results from time to time just like Google and SO, yet you still need to analyze its output and understand all this shit Software is not like art One error here = doesnt work Meanwhile errors at image may be hard to spot or even cool
  - JumpCrisscross 4y ago
    > you still need to analyze its output and understand all this shit And the person who does that will earn more. But they will be expected to produce at a rate that a human, working unassisted, cannot today. And those who would have assisted today will not have a niche anymore.
    - hardware2win 4y ago
      Explaining to ChatGPT what to produce will still be a bottleneck.
      - JumpCrisscross 4y ago
        > Explaining to ChatGPT what to produce will still be a bottleneck And a specialised skill. Still cheaper than maintaining a fleet of coders.
        welshwelsh 4y ago
        You could as easily say that Python is a specialized skill, and is cheaper than maintaining a fleet of manual assembly coders. Yet we hire even more of these higher level coders, and pay them more.
bdcravens 4y ago
True software engineering, no. But for those those who are essentially line workers, stitching together frameworks and libraries and earning a spectacular income doing it, I'd say it is.

Famous last words. Just the other day I asked it to do something somewhat non-trivial: write an asynchronous streaming parser for Server-Sent Events in Rust using reqwest and nom. It cranked out not only working, but _sophisticated_, code that just needed some minor fixes to account for version updates in about 20 seconds. It was pretty eye opening.

gonzo41 4y ago
How is that not the same as a machinist spending 15 minutes in solidworks to design a peice, hitting export on the g-code, firing up the 7 axis cnc, walking out the door and coming back the next day to the finished goods. 3d printing is a great example of how this will only create more stuff. It's a threat to the low end. If you do basic stuff, your need to climb the skill ladder.
float4 4y ago
> write an asynchronous streaming parser for Server-Sent Events in Rust using reqwest and nom And now ask yourself how many non-SE's can even ask that question to ChatGPT.
hardware2win 4y ago
Sure it can give you cool results from time to time just like Google and SO, yet you still need to analyze its output and understand all this shit Software is not like art One error here = doesnt work Meanwhile errors at image may be hard to spot or even cool
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > you still need to analyze its output and understand all this shit And the person who does that will earn more. But they will be expected to produce at a rate that a human, working unassisted, cannot today. And those who would have assisted today will not have a niche anymore.
  - hardware2win 4y ago
    Explaining to ChatGPT what to produce will still be a bottleneck.
    - JumpCrisscross 4y ago
      > Explaining to ChatGPT what to produce will still be a bottleneck And a specialised skill. Still cheaper than maintaining a fleet of coders.
      - welshwelsh 4y ago
        You could as easily say that Python is a specialized skill, and is cheaper than maintaining a fleet of manual assembly coders. Yet we hire even more of these higher level coders, and pay them more.

bdcravens 4y ago

True software engineering, no. But for those those who are essentially line workers, stitching together frameworks and libraries and earning a spectacular income doing it, I'd say it is.