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Iteration and integration, the tasks which take most of at least my time as a developer, could fade significantly - or become automated themselves. We won't ha
by marstall 4y ago
Iteration and integration, the tasks which take most of at least my time as a developer, could fade significantly - or become automated themselves.
We won't have understanding of our code, similar to how we don't understand the machine language being generated by our compilers now.
We will be using our intuition about GPT to bring into being fully designed and integrated systems with 10 paragraphs at the prompt.
Which could in the end greatly increase the influence of a programmer in a given organization. Our role will be a softer, almost cyborgian one.
But this will indeed require the destruction of all that came before it. Questions like "but does it work with this 3rd party API, or this platform?" must become irrelevant for this future to happen.
A bit similar to how the web destroyed mainframe, perhaps, by first creating its own compelling world, then making the mountain come to it.
- AverageDude 4y agoI don’t understand the high level language to machine language comparison with AI. HLL to machine language is translation. We hardcode things. This literal translates to this thing. Machine language has it own mind (figuratively) and it’s not doing translation. It can put some silly bug by misunderstanding the requirements which may cause a billion dollar software meltdown. And who is going to be responsible for that? The more black box programming becomes the more dumb human programmer gets. There will be stagnation. There won’t be any new “design patterns”.