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It's the exact same for code tasks. The AI is actually quite a waste of time… You need to check every word of the AI for truth anyway, so you need to research
by still_grokking 4y ago
It's the exact same for code tasks. The AI is actually quite a waste of time…
You need to check every word of the AI for truth anyway, so you need to research all the stuff it tells you, as it could be made up, everything it tells you is very shallow, so you need to dig into the topics anyway, and making even small changed by the AI requires ridiculous amounts of explaining details in prose, instead of just changing a few lines by hand.
All in all it's much easier to come up with some more reasonable solution in a shorter time by just doing it the "classical" way: Read the docs and copy-paste code snippets from proper curated examples some human actually tested.
I don't say that an AI could not program at some point in the future. But I guess it would require AGI to be competitive with people who actually know what they're doing. But at the time we have AGI we have anyway much larger "problems" than how to write code, as more or less all human intellectual work would be superfluous.
- jliptzin 4y agoIt definitely speeds up my programming but it makes mistakes here and there (like any programmer) that need to be fixed. For me it’s a lot faster to proofread code or adjust the prompt than write it from scratch. And of course there’s cases where the AI can’t come up with a decent solution and it needs to be written from scratch. Anyone saying programming jobs are in trouble don’t really know programming. You can’t just have someone from the bizdev team prompting ChatGPT for JavaScript code and just doing copy/paste…it would be difficult to even come up with the prompt without sufficient programming jargon knowledge. Like the article says, the tool will allow programmers to work faster and therefore tackle more things. Expectations will go up but I don’t think the jobs themselves are in trouble.