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I used to think that LLMs for coding would mostly be a tool to make experienced developers much more productive, but after coming across this video I think it w

• otabdeveloper4 4y ago
  Normal people with no programming experience can already make small basic programs by copy-pasting code from Github and StackOverflow.
  • lordnacho 4y ago
    This is so much harder than most people think. I would reckon that as soon as a complication shows up, 75% of non coders will get helplessly stuck. Complication meaning something slightly beyond changing variable names: you need a different if condition, the snippet doesn't contain the required import, the version has advanced slightly.
  • chillfox 4y ago
    Most people will have no idea where to even paste the code. The key take away from the video I linked is that an AI can tell people not only what code to copy, but where to copy it and what to change if it doesn't work.
    • otabdeveloper4 4y ago
      > where to copy it and what to change if it doesn't work Google can do that too. (Well, it could if it wasn't permanently broken from SEO spam and monetization efforts.) Which is the key takeaway: the "chat" part of ChatGPT is a stupid smoke and mirrors gimmick. The salient useful parts are the large and well-curated training database. Which is technically quite possible to do without "AI" or text generators; though possibly not realistic from a business sense. There's no business case for "information search without spam and ads".