Thanks to Red Badger for the link to the article!
Thanks to Red Badger for the link to the article!
Cheese and Rice after 40 years of programming and it comes to this.
And this is the reason why it will not be successful in businesses. It is already difficult to find people, including developers, that think logically and can engineer solutions. They also have difficulty writing, English or any other language with the precision required by Codex to generate code. Imagine Joe Biden taking his own advice and becoming a coder. Read the tag line below.
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GIGO.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
There’s a big push going on to replace professional developers with gimmicks like no code/low code and now AI. Many of the companies behind the hype are startups trying to increase their valuation. It hasn’t worked in the past and it’s not going to work now for a number of reasons. You can Google. At best they will become tools and utilities that professional developers will use to take some of the drudgery out of development.
When you want added functionality or customization, who’s going to clean up and edit the giant, tangled ball of code that it will inevitably produce? Sure as hell not me.
“Codex, an AI system that translates natural language to programming code’
Hey, let me try it!
“Codex, make me a new system for the United States Internal Revenue Service that replaces their current software, but make the new GUI ten times more intuitive than the existing GUI, runs ten times faster than the existing systems, runs ten times more reliable than the existing systems, and is ten times easier to maintain and modify than the existing systems. Oh, and have all of this working perfectly in two years. thanks. that is all for now. (We’ll work on the USPS systems next.)”
[Wow! I just LOVE this natural-language-to-code AI system ... i see real promise here!]
There are plenty of 10yo kids writing android apps that work, right now. And thousands of young folks programming robotic stuff. Using arduinos, beaglebones, and raspberry pi’s. Many using graphical languages, as they are much more intuitive.
They have laser engravers and 3d printers for $150.
The Maker movement. Look it up.