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I’m both excited and scared to think about this “significant improvement” over GPT-4. It can make our jobs a lot easier or it can take our jobs.
by p1esk 3y ago
I’m both excited and scared to think about this “significant improvement” over GPT-4.
It can make our jobs a lot easier or it can take our jobs.
- stavros 3y agoIsn't that the same? At some point, your job becomes so easy that anyone can do it.
- Spivak 3y agoIt's weird for programmers to be worried about getting automated out of a job when my job as a programmer is basically to try as hard as I can to automate myself out of a job.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoYou’re supposed to automate yourself out but not tell anyone. Didn’t you see that old simpsons episode from the 90s about the self driving trucks? The drivers rightfully STFU about their innovation and cashed in on great work life balance and Homer ruined it by blabbered about it to everyone, causing the drivers to try to go after him. We are trying to keep SWE salaries up, and lowering the barrier to entry will drop them.
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- rmbyrro 3y agoI expect the demand for SWE to grow faster than productivity gains.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoThe idea that demand scales to fill supply doesn’t work when supply becomes effectively infinite. Induction from the past is likely wrong in this case
- rmbyrro 3y agoI don't see the current tech making supply infinite. Not even close. Maybe a more advanced type of model they'll invent in the next years. Who knows... But GPT-like models? Nah, they won't write useful code applicable in prod without supervision by an experient engineer.
- __loam 3y agoLLMs are going to spit out a lot of broken shit that needs fixing. They're great at small context work but full applications require more than they're capable of imo.