<div dir="auto">I'm saying it doesn't write code. It doesn't have to. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Business wants results with minimally acceptable quality. You build the AI. You train the AI. You get minimally acceptable results. You tinker with the AI if desired.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But the AI does not deliver code. It delivers useful results within statistically acceptable tolerances. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It doesn't make coders obsolete, it makes CODE obsolete. (Except for the AI experts' code to build, manage, and improve the AI</div><div dir="auto">)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 08:30 James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Try copilot and see all the wonderful ways you've never thought of to make terrible code even if it passes tests. Programming the AI to write ok code is harder than writing the code right now.<div><br></div><div>I'm all for the AI stuff. It's great as a convenient method to google, etc. And codefill is... eh. If you have a reasonable amount of code in your base already, it can do pretty good at boilerplate. Probably helps out 1/4 of the time above standard IDE library stuff. (totally scientific measurement of "eh, this").</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the thing. In any system you have a certain amount of complexity (entropy) that makes your thing different from the other folk. Reducing boilerplate and the total amount of work to specify the complexity is fair game, but if you add too much complexity to the language to reduce complexity of typing it, that's where things lose out. Perhaps AI can help with this, reduce the load on our poor hooman brains to remember the various options.</div><div><br></div><div>Where it will definitely have an effect is repeated tasks (making another web frontend router) and information retrieval.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my thoughts on it.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 8:07 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We are worried about AI learning to do programming and taking over programming jobs.<div><br></div><div>Modern AI doesn't produce code, it makes writing a lot of code unnecessary.</div><div><br></div><div>It may not be that programmers become obsolete but that coding as we know it now becomes obsolete.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:25 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I don't get it...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 5:03 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><b>Pointy haired manager to programmer:</b> We are thinking of replacing programming with AI.<div><br></div><div><b>Programmer:</b> Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI.</div><div><br></div><div><b>PHM:</b> No, replace programming itself.</div><div><br></div><div><b>P:</b> How? Why?</div><div><br></div><div><b>PHM: </b> Well, the Big, Poorly Understood AI produces really good results without actually writing code.</div><div><br></div><div><b>P:</b> Go on...</div><div><br></div><div><b>PHM:</b> Plus it's cheap and really, really prolific and efficient.</div><div><br></div><div><b>P:</b> Sure, but its quality is awful!! </div><div><br></div><div><b>PHM:</b> So is the quality of your software, all software, really.</div><div><br></div><div><b>P.</b> Yeah, but the AI's quality is MUCH worse!</div><div><br></div><div><b>PHM:</b> Yes, but the AI is so affordable, efficient, and prolific, that the wrongful death lawsuits will be just a cost of doing business, and we'll still come out ahead according to the actuaries.</div></div>
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