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I have a friend who needed to generate 400 random qr codes. Did the first half in 4 hours, going one by one through an online website. Learning about it mid th

I have a friend who needed to generate 400 random qr codes. Did the first half in 4 hours, going one by one through an online website. Learning about it mid through that process I told her to try asking chatgpt to write a python script for it (she knows a bit of python, knows how to run a script etc.). Needed a pip install of the qr code lib, but other than that worked right away. ChatGPT turned the next 4 hours of menial work into 10 minutes. This is the true incoming disruption. People who just vaguely know how to program, getting a powerful tool that can assist them 95% of the way for simple automations like this.

throwaway2203 3y ago
> People who just vaguely know how to program This is a very absurdly small minority of people.
- cube2222 3y ago
  It's becoming increasingly more common for people in various stem areas, social sciences, economics, etc. Basics of Python courses are very common everywhere, now.
re-thc 3y ago
> ChatGPT turned the next 4 hours of menial work into 10 minutes. This is the true incoming disruption. Problem is how do you know if it's correct? If you have to verify it all it may take even longer. And when it's wrong it's back to square 1. > People who just vaguely know how to program, getting a powerful tool that can assist them 95% of the way for simple automations like this. Is assuming it's correct.
- jallen_dot_dev 3y ago
  It doesn't take 4 hours to code review a few lines of code for generating random QR codes.
  - adventured 3y ago
    And besides that, there will be AI systems drastically superior to a good human software developer today, that can trivially review code. These are not challenging things to solve, these are trivial things to solve (which we'll solve in the very early days of AI, ie now), AI systems will march right through it, and soon. The notion that only a human can effectively check code, will be viewed as a joke before this decade is out. Humans will be very inferior. Emphasis on very. Anybody that doesn't realize that yet, is still thinking in the terms of today, right now - and not understanding how fast this is all about to change, much less how much it'll change in a decade of time. There will be button pushing monkeys, that are called ... code confirmation engineers, that sit at a computer and sign off on the AI systems doing code checks. They'll go to school for it, they'll almost never directly review code, most of them won't be able to even if they cared to (which they won't).

throwaway2203 3y ago

> People who just vaguely know how to program This is a very absurdly small minority of people.

cube2222 3y ago
It's becoming increasingly more common for people in various stem areas, social sciences, economics, etc. Basics of Python courses are very common everywhere, now.

re-thc 3y ago

> ChatGPT turned the next 4 hours of menial work into 10 minutes. This is the true incoming disruption. Problem is how do you know if it's correct? If you have to verify it all it may take even longer. And when it's wrong it's back to square 1. > People who just vaguely know how to program, getting a powerful tool that can assist them 95% of the way for simple automations like this. Is assuming it's correct.

jallen_dot_dev 3y ago
It doesn't take 4 hours to code review a few lines of code for generating random QR codes.
- adventured 3y ago
  And besides that, there will be AI systems drastically superior to a good human software developer today, that can trivially review code. These are not challenging things to solve, these are trivial things to solve (which we'll solve in the very early days of AI, ie now), AI systems will march right through it, and soon. The notion that only a human can effectively check code, will be viewed as a joke before this decade is out. Humans will be very inferior. Emphasis on very. Anybody that doesn't realize that yet, is still thinking in the terms of today, right now - and not understanding how fast this is all about to change, much less how much it'll change in a decade of time. There will be button pushing monkeys, that are called ... code confirmation engineers, that sit at a computer and sign off on the AI systems doing code checks. They'll go to school for it, they'll almost never directly review code, most of them won't be able to even if they cared to (which they won't).