[eastexsteve]

I just read another article stating that many middle managers are recognizing the folly of firing their seasoned software developers after observing that AI produces lots of useless slop. That "rescue" may not hold over other job types that AI is replacing, but it is evident that AI isn't the ultimate solution for software engineering.

AI is just another tool they obviously don't know how to use. My brother is a retired CEO of a wordlwide medical company, but he was originally head of software/hardware development for them. He occasionally still does their software projects, but he no longer hires coders. He says he lays out the framework and lets Grok AI do the rest.

[Myrddin]

In my final 6 months as work, I employed both ChatGPT and grok to generate code. In particular, I designed a JSON data storage format to act as a database. I wanted it to be fetched from storage, fully editable and stored in the edited form. In particular, all of the editing Javascript needed to conform to React style immutable data structures. With some prompting, I was able to get a full editing Javascript expressed and tested. I had to manually integrate the code with the React UI that already existed. It was a hybrid approach to AI generation without allowing AI to see the full picture or muck up the existing code.