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Just read the Brian Hayes essay "AI and the end of programming" from 2023. It is a nice story about his experience with getting chatgpt to do some programing ta
by tocs3 2y ago
Just read the Brian Hayes essay "AI and the end of programming" from 2023. It is a nice story about his experience with getting chatgpt to do some programing tasks and related discussion. As a spoiler he does not see the current state of thing as "the end of programing".
[1] : http://bit-player.org/2023/ai-and-the-end-of-programming http://bit-player.org/2023/ai-and-the-end-of-programming
- zahlman 2y ago>he does not see the current state of thing "From 2023" is an eternity in AI development. Do you mean that he was clickbaiting originally, or that he changed his mind, or just what?
- tocs3 2y ago2023 is a while but I thought it was a fair description of what LLMs are doing, how they work, and what that means for programing. The blog post is a discussion of work being done in the field (at the time at least). He did not say it is a pointless endeavor. It sounded more like LLMs are just not like a human mentor that can guide the way, but more like an assistant that might help with some of the grudge work (sort of).
- zahlman 2y ago> It sounded more like LLMs are just not like a human mentor that can guide the way, but more like an assistant that might help with some of the grudge work (sort of). That matches my general impression (except that it does seem to "understand" some ideas in the sense of accurately modelling them, and it's not at all limited by typing speed).