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[-] missmystique@beehaw.org 37 points 10 months ago

This feels like a more cogent opinion piece on AI's potential impact on programming:

ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 26 points 10 months ago

AI is coming for your shitty "journalism" jobs writing about AI taking your jobs.

[-] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

This is a much better article. OP's article just shows the author's surface understanding of how coding works and how well an LLM can actually code. There's way more that goes into a programming task than just coding.

I see LLMs as having the potential of being almost like a super library. I can prompt GPT, Claude, etc. to write me a custom function that I copy, paste, test, scrutinize, and almost certainly change. It's a tool that will make someone a more productive programmer. It won't completely subsume a human's ability to be creative and put the pieces together.

At the absolute worst over the next decade, I could see programming changing from writing and debugging code to prompting, stitching together, and debugging.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

It's the same with CAM software in CNC, like sure, If you set it up right (which is a skill in and of itself) it can spit out a decent toolpath, but there's tons of magic to be done by hand and understanding the way the underlying G code works allows you to make small changes on the fly.

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