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Valid point about whether AI generating piles of JavaScript might lock us into outdated tools. Isn't what you're describing though a form of advanced prompting?
by hankrod 1y ago
Valid point about whether AI generating piles of JavaScript might lock us into outdated tools. Isn't what you're describing though a form of advanced prompting? The ideal tool could act as a layer that takes a prompt and builds exactly what's needed to deliver the outcome, without humans or AI wrestling with traditional code. This is similar to what OpenAI initially aimed for with function calling, where AI writes and executes code in a sandbox to fulfill a prompt but it was clunky so they shifted to structured tool calling. The reason we still need program code like JavaScript, rust, assembly, ... is that current computing architectures are built for it. That’s changing, though, with initiatives from NVIDIA and other startups exploring inference as the main computational primitive, which could reduce/remove the need for conventional programming.
- greybox 1y agoI don't see AI inference becoming the main computational primitive. It will always be faster and more efficient on the execution side to just write some code to do a task, than it will be to ask an AI to do the same task. Unless nobody knows how to write code anymore, and everyone just loves paying Google/OpenAI rent to avoid having to think for themselves.