3 ms·
There hasn't been enough time for it to be integrated into most workflows yet enough to make much of a dent in employment, especially at larger companies. At t
by cableshaft 4y ago
There hasn't been enough time for it to be integrated into most workflows yet enough to make much of a dent in employment, especially at larger companies.
At this point it's just another tool for people to learn and wrap their head around and figure out how to capitalize on, and if you've ever supported a product before, you'd know it can take a while for people to get the hang of those things.
I use it a bit on my own but I don't use it at all for work, and I don't even know if I could, since the company may be hesitant to use A.I. generated code in case part of it may be taken from something with restricted licensing, but I haven't seen any guidance yet on it, so I don't bother.
And GPT may be a very eager junior programmer, but it still can't see the forest for the trees yet. It can't hold the entire program in its head, or know what to prioritize, or figure out fuzzy requirements, or how to integrate that little task into the larger project, and know when it needs to ask clarifying questions, etc. It might get there eventually, but it's not there yet. Right now it's not much better than getting lucky and landing on just the right answer in Stack Overflow.
I'd take the junior programmers that I'm managing right now, with the dealing with the shortcuts and oversights and mistakes they send my way when they think they've completed a PR, over what ChatGPT is capable of today.