Ai isn’t replacing coding either.
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I agree, this is the real impact of Ai. It won’t replace developers, but make them work for less money. But I actually think real programmers will be even more needed in the future, if there is ton of bad code written by non coders with Ai or even by real coders with the support of Ai. That means we get more code, that needs to be reviewed and worked on by real programmers.
Therefore on one hand it will lessen the money earned for real programmers, on the other hand they will be more useful and needed in the future.
“we’ll all be peasants by 2027” 🥴
Unsurprisingly, it’s necessary to understand a problem to solve it - just like the proverbial infinite monkey would in theory produce the entire body of work of Shakespeare given enough time, in reality, only Shakespeare managed to write proper Shakespeare the first time out.
AI is the infinite monkey of coding. I, as a senior developer, have spend entirely too many hours of my working life fixing code written by monkeys, and I have already had to correct AI code (thankfully small and generated by a colleague who promptly apologized and decided to do his homework and study the problem at hand instead of winging it with Crapilot).
AI coding is an improvement on infinite monkey Shakespeare in the sense that it only types whole words from a dictionary. Although that dictionary has been built from a mix of classic literature and SNS posts.
I am indeed lucky because the company I work for cares about its employees. It’s literally written in the company statutes: the company exists to make money of course, but first and foremost to serve its workforce and the community, and takes decisions to maximize the well-being and the personal growth of the employees and the community.
We took an honest look at including AI in our workflow, but we decided it wasn’t worth the social destruction. Only a few employees use it - mostly the marketdroids to generate illustrations on the sales literature.
I am aware that this is a rare type of company and I cherish that job.
infinite monkey. I love it. borrowed.
But get this: Shakespeare was an ape that did in fact produce all of Shakespeare’s works. 🤯
As an engineer, I’m not looking forward to the entire generation(s?) of vibe coders who couldn’t explain what a byte is and the ways one might be stored on a system.
Manual memory management is already relatively niche and not needed for most programming tasks
Don’t worry, it is ready to replace human coders for writing bug.
rebugging, if you will
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And presumably debugging is a lot more work as AI is just a fancy template lookup and has no idea what it is doing.
Basically quickly generate crap code then hope you can debug it into something acceptable.
If you want debug code, then hopefully it isn’t written by an Ai agent. Otherwise good luck (besides simple functions or code blocks off course).
Not really for writing yet either. Its an assistant. It can write code sections and comments that then have to be reviewed and edited a bit. Rather than a coder having to go back and forth between a search engine as they write they are more likely to be able to stay in the ide.
