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> Imagine if the Therac-25 software was written by chatGPT. I guess in that case we wouldn't learn and teach from the design flaws made. Instead we would "It's

> Imagine if the Therac-25 software was written by chatGPT. I guess in that case we wouldn't learn and teach from the design flaws made. Instead we would "It's just a glitch. No one is really to blame. Just feed it more data and maybe it won't kill anyone next time". Having been partially responsible for a (back then) SVM based machine learning system and seeing how it's difficult to explain to management why it fails and why fixing it isn't just a missing line of code somewhere was pretty frustrating. I'm not sure I like this future.

Dave3of5 4y ago
> I'm not sure I like this future Me too! But to allay our fears I think that the OP here is saying all programming will change to some NN powered large language model. That is not true. There will still be "manual" i.e. not NN powered programming and I suspect that it will be the case that type of thing is the majority for the rest of my career. Good luck to the poor sods in 100 years time arguing with a poorly trained LLM to output some unit tests whilst a virtual chatbot runs the standups.