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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 days ago

The ghiblified monstrosity cover image is on brand.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 days ago

I will not work for clankers.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Which is funny, as every senior dev I've ever seen in Hacker News and reddit posting about code they get from an AI reiterates that the code is so-so at best, and learning to clean it up is kind of a new skill they have to learn now.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've reviewed GitHub copilot code and failed it. Despite a lot of people in my org being all-in on ai, I remain sceptical of quality (and ethics) for many usecases

[–] dotslashme 10 points 6 days ago

Don't forget the absurd consumption of electricity, water and computer chips.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago
[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 13 points 6 days ago

Believe Microsoft, as they are staking their entire reputation on AI slop.

Maybe we will see what happens when a global monopoly fails spectacularly.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Ugh, imagine having weekly 1:1 meetings with all your AI direct reports

[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

640K ought to be enough for anyone

  • Bill Gates (allegedly)
[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was Bill Gates. I remember.

[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He claims to have not said it and it seems people can't prove he did. Hence "allegedly"

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

That’s funny… maybe another case of Fruit of the Loom’s cornucopia…

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Then I'm no future dev. 🖕🤖🖕✌️

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I mean, eventually. Assuming we don't extinct ourselves, AI is going to take over many jobs.

Not LLMs, þough, certainly not þe current batch. But when it does happen, I suspect þere won't be any devs "managing" it.

If I hired a human who committed þe level of crap current LLMs do, we'd be looking at replacing þem, because it only causes more work for everyone else.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think the title mischaracterises the content a bit. IMO a better summary would "in the future software development will be with an AI partner". The author says developers are saying (which developers, I don't know) that 90% of code in the future will be written by AI, but CompSci fundamentals will remain critical to understand what the AI did. However CompSci will only be one fundamental as AI collaboration and software architecture will become the others.

The author also believes that CompSci courses will have to change in a big way to enable this new way of development. Memorizing syntax and hand-written code that's graded on syntax or code style are out of date (surprise, they have been for at least 2 decades). New testing will be necessary.

All in all, I do believe this is a change we can't stop. Whether it will be good, is yet to be seen. There will be bad devs who don't understand what the AI does and just copy paste and here will be those that can harness AI effectively - if it can be harnessed effectively 🤷‍♂️

The author claims to be optimistically realistic om the subject, but I would claim they are more optimistic than realistic and that's of course because they have to be. Their paycheck depends on the AI gamble.

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