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Yes, but it will strongly decrease demand for new ideas. AI is a "win more" technology for current software architecture incumbents. The more popular a tech is,
by simpaticoder 2y ago
Yes, but it will strongly decrease demand for new ideas. AI is a "win more" technology for current software architecture incumbents. The more popular a tech is, the more content there is about it, the more capable an LLM is of giving a usable answer. A programmer who relies on LLMs for coding assistance will be far less likely to try something new, and it will have a chilling effect on the adoption of all new tools, architectures, and libraries.
- passion__desire 2y agoIf there is a way for LLMs to always suggest the best practices for a given task (e.g. upsampling on those tasks), then SE devs won't make trivial errors. So the knife can cut both ways. In fact it can become a source of uptodate information if augmented properly.
- Lio 2y agoI can kind of see that argument but it reminds me of when a new programming language comes out and there's no IDE support for it. That definitely stops some developers from considering it, others are happy to use just a standard editor without intellisense, etc.
- simpaticoder 2y agoGen AI increases the demand for software engineers, but software engineers increase the demand for AI for code assistance. You are right, of course, but the number of programmers not using AI code assist will asymptotically approach some very low minimum, thanks for the productivity boost. I keep hearing "3x" and that feels about right to me. The same could not be said for intellisense, or at least is harder to quantify.