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[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 150 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I predict that, within the year, AI will be doing 100% of the development work that isn't total and utter bullshit pain-in-the-ass complexity, layered on obfuscations, composed of needlessly complex bullshit.

That's right, within a year, AI will be doing .001% of programming tasks.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 2 years ago

Big companies will take 5 years just to get there.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 131 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"look i registered my own domain name all by myself!"

the domain: "localhost"

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm an elite hacker and I grabbed your IP address from this post. It's 192.168.0.1 just so you know I'm not bluffing.

[–] Rambi@lemm.ee 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Heheh I'm ddossing them right now. Unfortunately the computer I'm doing it on is having a few connection issues

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 6 points 2 years ago

That gave me a nice chuckle lmao

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[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha punk it's actually 192.168.1.1. you dun goofed

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Dude, you need to use the broadcast address.

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Wow, these new TLDs are terrible! ICANN has really lost it this time!

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 87 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Engineering is about trust. In all other and generally more formalized engineering disciplines, the actual job of an engineer is to provide confidence that something works. Software engineering may employ fewer people because the tools are better and make people much more productive, but until everyone else trusts the computer more, the job will exist.

If the world trusts AI over engineers then the fact that you don't have a job will be moot.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

People don't have anywhere near enough knowledge of how things work to make their choices based on trust. People aren't getting on the subway because they trust the engineers did a good job; they're doing it because it's what they can afford and they need to get to work.

Similarly, people aren't using Reddit or Adobe or choosing their cars firmware based on trust. People choose what is affordable and convenient.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In civil engineering public works are certified by an engineer; its literally them saying if this fails i am at fault. The public is trusting the engineer to say its safe.

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[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just used copilot for the first time. It made me a ton of call to action text and website page text for various service pages inwas creating for a home builder. It was surprisingly useful, of course I modified the output a bit but overall saved me a ton of time.

[–] Daxtron2@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Copilot has cut my workload by about 40% freeing me up for personal projects

[–] uplusion23@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Copilot is only dangerous in the hands of people who couldn't program otherwise. I love it, it's helped a ton on tedious tasks and really is like a pair programmer

[–] Daxtron2@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's perfect for if you can distinguish between good and bad generations. Sometimes it tries to run on an empty text file in vscode and it just outputs an ingredients list lol

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Copilot has cut my personal projects by about 40% freeing me up for work

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

i get copilot through github education and let me tell you the first time i put out a bunch of code related to one of my entities, i was floored. it's definitely not there to write your entire app but it saves so much time

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the correct response is "Wow. Has your mom seen it? Send her the link."

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

why? wouldn't she simply be unable to open it too?

[–] MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it’s on the same device, it would open a page showing her what is in the downloads folder of his user. I think the joke is he might have something embarrassing there, but I wouldn’t know since I only have things there when I’m downloading them and then immediately file them away to some actual hyperspecific folder

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

why would they be on the same device? how can they be on the same device at the same time? also if she gets the full link it would only show her the html page, not the rest of the folder

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[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AI is only as good as the person using it, like literally any other tool in human existence.

It's meant to amplify the workload of the professional, not replace them with a layman armed with an LLM.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

This AI thing will certainly replace my MD to HTML converter and definitely not misplace my CSS and JS headers

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tbf I don't really wanna do ops work. I barely even wanna do DevOps. Let me just dev

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me too 😭
I don't want to "kubectl", I want to " make" 😭

[–] kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

so write a Makefile that calls kubectl!

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don't need to convince the devs, you need to convince the managers.

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[–] StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Wow, there is a lot of pearl-clutching and gatekeeping ITT. It's delicious!

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

These morons are probably going to train AI wrong so job security for the next 100 years.

[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

Might be about time for testers to start cr4pping their pants tho.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

only because ai hasn't replaced the client..... yet

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Who has four thumbs and a top tier business plan? This AI!

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only thing ChatGPT etc. is useful for, in every language, is to get ideas on how to solve a problem, in an area you don't know anything about.

ChatGPT, how can I do xy in C++?
You can use the library ab, like ...

That's where I usually search for the library and check the docs if it's actually possible to do it this way. And often, it's not.

[–] hlqxz@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is hilariously incompetent... but on a serious note, I still firmly reject tools like copilot outside demos and the like because they drastically reduce code quality for short term acceleration. That's a terrible trade-off in terms of cost.

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