You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
This is the point that the “AI will do it all” crowd is missing. Current AI doesn’t innovate. Full stop. It copies.
The need for new code written by folks who understand what they’re writing isn’t gone, and won’t go away.
Whether those folks can be AI is an open question.
Whether we can ever create an AI that can actually innovate is an interesting open question, with little meaningful evidence in either direction, today.
Yeah integrating APIs has really become trivial with copilots. You just copy paste the documentation and all the boring stuff is done in the blink of an eye ! I love it
It’s exactly the sort of “tedious yet not difficult” task that I love it for. Sometimes you need to clean things up a bit but it does the majority of the work very nicely.
This seems like a very bad idea. I think we just need more lisp and less AI.
Good point.
This is the point that the “AI will do it all” crowd is missing. Current AI doesn’t innovate. Full stop. It copies.
The need for new code written by folks who understand what they’re writing isn’t gone, and won’t go away.
Whether those folks can be AI is an open question.
Whether we can ever create an AI that can actually innovate is an interesting open question, with little meaningful evidence in either direction, today.
“Hey AI - Create a struct that matches this JSON document that I get from a REST service”
Bam, it’s done.
Or
"Hey AI - add a schema prefixed on all of the tables and insert statements in the SQL script.
People have such a hate boner for AI here that they are downvoting actual good use of it…
Yeah integrating APIs has really become trivial with copilots. You just copy paste the documentation and all the boring stuff is done in the blink of an eye ! I love it
It’s exactly the sort of “tedious yet not difficult” task that I love it for. Sometimes you need to clean things up a bit but it does the majority of the work very nicely.