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I am a tech lead and while I don't use AI at my company (Disney) for writing code, since I have a team of contractors at my disposal, in my spare time I am work
by byoung2 1y ago
I am a tech lead and while I don't use AI at my company (Disney) for writing code, since I have a team of contractors at my disposal, in my spare time I am working on a side project where ChatGPT is writing all of the code. It is an experiment mainly to see if it can be done. I am getting better at writing prompts to get better results, but I don't think we are at the point where a nontechnical project manager could get good results. I feel like a lead or senior can use AI to replace interns and juniors, but more likely it is currently being used to make them more productive rather than replace people. It will be interesting to see the next few years, when it will be possible for one lead or senior to do the work of entire teams.
- frank_nitti 1y agoI wonder how a nontechnical PM would ever be able to evaluate the outputs well enough for their business to deploy model-generated code into production where end users’ safety/privacy/etc are at stake. If the answer would be related to extensive testing, who verifies the model-generated tests? Given that a nontechnical PM would neither be able to inspect the system code nor its tests, this is the part that does not add up for me. It seems at least one person still has to really understand the “hard part” of computing as it relates to their domain.
- byoung2 1y agoYeah I often catch bugs in AI generated code and AI generally just codes for the happy path. There’s a big chance a nontechnical person wouldn’t think of the edge cases a seasoned engineer would.