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If most of your code is being written by AI, you need a more interesting/higher value job. I wish AI could write more of my code but it really is much much fas
by Swizec 3y ago
If most of your code is being written by AI, you need a more interesting/higher value job.
I wish AI could write more of my code but it really is much much faster if I just write it myself. The context and curiosity necessary to even know what questions to ask so you know what code to write is far beyond the scope of any AI I’ve seen.
- MostlyStable 3y agoI agree with your basic premise that AI is, at the moment, mostly only good for writing pretty simple code for pretty simple problems. The few things I've had it do for me, even though simple, still needed a bit of massaging (although I haven't been using GPT 4). But to your final point, that sort of seems like the way it's going to go in the mid-term. The human skill is going to be in figuring out what needs to be done/how to ask AI for it, and the AI will do the nitty gritty of writing it. Right now, for more complex tasks, the human skill is _both_ in recognizing what needs to be done _and_ in doing it. The second part is going to move to AI probably quite a ways before the first part.
- Swizec 3y ago> The human skill is going to be in figuring out what needs to be done/how to ask AI for it, and the AI will do the nitty gritty This is great news if your job is to do the thinking. You will have more time for better thinking. Awful news if your job is hand-on-keyboard typing with others telling you what to do.