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Huh. The way I see SO and the future of AI is ... I don't. I don't bother looking at SO any more for the easy questions, I just use ChatGPT. It's not perfect

Huh. The way I see SO and the future of AI is ... I don't. I don't bother looking at SO any more for the easy questions, I just use ChatGPT. It's not perfect, but neither is SO, and ChatGPT is faster and more polite. I still don't think ChatGPT is really coming for software engineers' jobs anytime soon, though. A high level programming language is about telling a computer exactly what you want as succinctly as possible. By the time you get specific enough with ChatGPT to produce said code, you could just write that code yourself. Without the non-deterministic behavior, too. But as a helper tool, it's remarkably useful.

yunwal 4y ago
If your manager can assign you a Jira task with a 3 sentence description and get a reasonable result, what makes you think they can’t have the same interaction with an AI? Sure, it won’t be ChatGPT, it’ll be something else, but same thing.
- gumballindie 4y ago
  What’s with the fixation with comparing software to a human?
  - yunwal 4y ago
    In this case there’s nothing specific to humans that make us uniquely capable of completing an information task. It’s not like we’re talking about creating great art or something. There doesn’t have to be intent behind completing a spec in the most reasonable way possible.