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I completely disagree because of how this batch of AI learns. It learns by studying what is currently available as opposed to supplying something new. Bad deve
by austin-cheney 4y ago
I completely disagree because of how this batch of AI learns. It learns by studying what is currently available as opposed to supplying something new.
Bad developers on the way of becoming obsolete by AI will see drastic improvements from the thing that’s about to replace them. Otherwise it’s slightly better intellisence integrated in your editor.
The difference is that bad developers are primarily concerned with literacy and their primary intent is chasing easy. Better developers are comfortable reading code no differently than an attorney reading a large contact and their primary intent is chasing better automation. It’s the difference between designing a car engine versus hammering pieces together.
I suspect this will open wage distinctions. Those who can write software will be identified from those who can’t. Those who can will be fewer in number and their wages will increase. Those who can’t will be a lower skilled commodity with depreciated wages, like the way data entry was once a skilled profession many decades ago but no longer.
- eggsmediumrare 4y agoI think a lot of "good" developers making this very argument will be in for a nasty surprise when they find out which bucket they're actually in
- austin-cheney 4y agoI don’t doubt that at all. “Good” is relative to something but what that thing is often makes for a poor quality of measure with few samples compared. The are objective ways to measure competence in software but nobody wants to use them. Most people don’t want to discover just how good they aren’t.