Is AI like GPTchat going to replace SWEs soon?
Within like a day of launching GPTchat it already feels like we’re extremely close to companies using AI to write code vs hiring engineers. Not to mention the economic climate makes this a very favorable environment for that. Thoughts?
Nope
Not even close
🔮
No.
Yes, Engineers will have to identify problems, train a bot and lease it to companies.
The thing I haven't heard is how writing a prompt detailing very specific business logic isn't just a further continuation of the development of more abstract languages. "If the player color is red, save a new widget to the database" isn't that far off syntactically from the actual code in Python. It just seems like the same moral panic that happened when C ate assembly, when Java ate C, etc etc. Our value add as engineers isn't in the syntax. It's in the decomposition of complex problems into manageable, describable problems. That's not going away until general intelligence is created.
Still my teammates are busy creating slackbots
GPTChat seems to be pretty good at taking a natural language prompt and turning it into a technical response, so maybe a few further iterations, then yes. But you won't get many responses acknowledging this.
Few more iterations? You have no idea what you're talking about
i hope so
Yep. We should all go back to school and learn how to farm and buy some cattle.
Don’t bother, new plant-based meta is going to decimate the meat industry.
My meat eats plants. Therefore, my meats are plant-based, too. Checkmate.