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AI can make anyone a programmer and has 'closed the digital divide,' Nvidia CEO

• ftxbro 3y ago
  Maybe this is controversial but I'm going to say a dissenting opinion. This is like saying that when electricity came out of the labs and houses became wired with electrical plugs that any person can use, it meant that the divide between electrical engineers and non-electricians has been closed. I mean sure. But also no. EDIT: also I don't think that electricity is in general a good analogy for this new wave of LLM powered ai, but for some reason i used it here
  • jruohonen 3y ago
    I agree: if programming is about pasting code from unknown, potentially unreliable or outright dangerous sources, then maybe yes. Even then, it is not software engineering. But interesting times ahead once we start to see the effects upon code quality. I am not optimistic.
• dtagames 3y ago
  This is fundamentally untrue because programming has always been about "telling a computer what to do." That aspect isn't changing with LLMs. What's changing is the type of language we use to do that telling. Syntax was never the hard part of programming. The hard parts are architecture, logic, UI development, and debugging. While LLMs can be a great help to programmers who are already doing that work, they're not going to turn someone into a programmer who does not already have an aptitude for these human-machine instruction sessions, whatever language they're in.
• TesterVetter 3y ago
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