I have no other gear than polemic on the topic of AI-for-code-generation so ignore this comment if you don’t like that. I think people in software envy real-en

I have no other gear than polemic on the topic of AI-for-code-generation so ignore this comment if you don’t like that. I think people in software envy real-engineering too much. Software development is what it is. If it does not live up to that bar then so be it. But AI-for-code-generation (“AI” for short now) really drops any kind of pretense. I got into software because it was supposed to be analytic, even kind of a priori. And deterministic. What even is AI right now? It melds the very high tech and probabilistic (AI tech) with the low tech of code generation (which is deterministic by itself but not with AI). That’s a regression both in terms of craftmanship (code generation) and so-called engineering (deterministic). I was looking forward to higher-level software development: more declarative (better programming languages and other things), more tool-assisted (tests, verification), more deterministic and controlled (Nix?), and less process redundancies (e.g. less redundancies in manual/automated testing, verification, review, auditing). Instead we are mining the hard work of the past three decades and spitting out things that have the mandatory label “this might be anything, verify it yourself”. We aren’t making higher-level tools—we[1] are making a taller tower with less support beams, until the tower reaches so high that the wind can topple it at any moment. The above was just for AI-for-code-generation. AI could perhaps be used to create genuinely higher level processes. A solid structure with better support. But that’s not the current trajectory/hype. [1] ChatGPT em-dash alert. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498204