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I think AI will evolve to the point where it produces working, bug free code. But that code won't necessarily be that readable, clean or modular. In the future
by threethirtytwo 6mo ago
I think AI will evolve to the point where it produces working, bug free code. But that code won't necessarily be that readable, clean or modular. In the future the complexity or how "bad" the code is won't matter because the LLM will deal with the complexity and clean up the messes automatically. Your code wasn't modular enough to account for a certain new feature? Well the LLM will simply make it modular enough. Is the code too hacky to fix a bug? The LLM will make it less hacky if it was too hacky in the first place. OR the LLM can deal with the hackiness. That is the future. Your skills will atrophy in the same way humanities skills with the slide rule has atrophied.
Going against the grain here which statistically is more likely to be right given how HN was so wrong about self driving and AI being useless for coding. I think HNers given that their identity is tied around coding are of course going to defend that identity till the bitter end in the same way artists did.
- rimliu 6mo agoIndeed, the AI coding is most likely to go the way of self-driving: always around the corner.
- threethirtytwo 6mo agoSelf driving is not around the corner. I sit in the back seat of an AI driven car on a daily basis. There is no living being sitting on the front seat and that car goes on the freeway. This is a regular and very common thing where I live:
- rimliu 6mo agoPowered by chaps in Phillipinnes. Your "regular and very common" thing is close to calling railoroads self-driving.
- threethirtytwo 6mo agoYou’re kinda delusional. It’s here and people use it and you’re still moving the goal posts. For geniuses like you it will still be around the corner only until you can call a Waymo in the middle of the fucking ocean. You’re right. It will never happen.