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Who is this super-layman that can sit down in front of ChatGPT5, ask it to produce a highly technical document and then immediately implement it's recommendatio

Who is this super-layman that can sit down in front of ChatGPT5, ask it to produce a highly technical document and then immediately implement it's recommendations? The man is going to ask it for explanations for days, throw something together that kinda works and hire an expert 'consultant' that should have been an employee, when it inevitably breaks or requirements change. Who would bet the legal success of their company on the 'truthiness' of ChatGPT? The skilled knowledge workers just got upgraded to a better set of tools and the layman is as equally clueless as ever. C++ didn't get easier to read, we just got a robot teacher.

dangerwill 4y ago
Yeah but the point isn't that all engineers will go away, but there will be a much lower need for them at scale. Who is going to have use for a bunch of junior/mid level engineers when the job becomes purely specification writing and verification? 1 senior engineer who also plays double duty as project manager will be able to replace a team that had been like 8 people before. We aren't going to all of a sudden have 8x more projects to work on, we are going to have 8x fewer engineers. And companies will LOVE this because it will become a rat race down to the bottom salary wise as people get desperate for any job at all
- barrysteve 4y ago
  The loss of low-hanging fruit is likely, I agree. Same as most mature technological markets. Making an iPhone app today is a saturated proposition, compared to a decade ago. But the paradigm that websites, iphone apps and windows programs are the breadwinners, can very well change. If we're really getting on the 'gpt engineering revolution' bandwagon, then it must logically bring quantum computing, metaverse, more cybersecurity vulnerabilities, more sophisticated internet backbone and better computing hardware with it. (And fusion power and flying pigs, ect idealism). A revolution for one, will bring a revolution for everything and that involves an awful lot of developer-hours, once we have changed the target market from "http-websites and apps" to the next market.

dangerwill 4y ago

Yeah but the point isn't that all engineers will go away, but there will be a much lower need for them at scale. Who is going to have use for a bunch of junior/mid level engineers when the job becomes purely specification writing and verification? 1 senior engineer who also plays double duty as project manager will be able to replace a team that had been like 8 people before. We aren't going to all of a sudden have 8x more projects to work on, we are going to have 8x fewer engineers. And companies will LOVE this because it will become a rat race down to the bottom salary wise as people get desperate for any job at all

barrysteve 4y ago
The loss of low-hanging fruit is likely, I agree. Same as most mature technological markets. Making an iPhone app today is a saturated proposition, compared to a decade ago. But the paradigm that websites, iphone apps and windows programs are the breadwinners, can very well change. If we're really getting on the 'gpt engineering revolution' bandwagon, then it must logically bring quantum computing, metaverse, more cybersecurity vulnerabilities, more sophisticated internet backbone and better computing hardware with it. (And fusion power and flying pigs, ect idealism). A revolution for one, will bring a revolution for everything and that involves an awful lot of developer-hours, once we have changed the target market from "http-websites and apps" to the next market.