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Doesn't matter how many people can produce the requirements document when an AI can produce it. No manager and coder pair can iterate on an idea 5 times per mi
by elif 2y ago
Doesn't matter how many people can produce the requirements document when an AI can produce it.
No manager and coder pair can iterate on an idea 5 times per minute, even if the first attempt needs correction, the timescale disparity makes AI agents appealing for nearly all noncritical coding tasks.
- bluefirebrand 2y agoNow you're talking about someone who can describe what they want in enough so that an AI can generate a strictly defined requirements document with enough detail that another AI (or the same AI) can generate working code? It's just AI all the way down, and each step still needs to be validated because AI is not reliable
- lazide 2y agolol. The hardest part in corp programming is getting the requirements right when literally no one involved can seem to think themselves out of a paper bag. It isn’t a matter of iterating either, it’s being able to figure out what is politically workable and actually implementable.
- medvezhenok 2y agoWhat about examples where [technical] management actively makes it harder for engineers to do their job by enforcing nonsensical design decisions (when explicitly warned against it)? :) No AI can solve that one.
- kcplate 2y agoNot sure I agree here completely. On its own perhaps not, but if AI is able to deliver nonsensical design decisions at a faster rate than a human, you can iterate to a final better design faster.