CRUD only, wow, so easy!!! I'm pretty sure someone has seen the following joke:
The husband told by the wife: "Buy a watermelon, if you see eggs, buy a dozen" before going out. So he went home with a dozen watermelons.
Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
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Re: Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
#22Every other day I get a new customer opening up with "Hey, I'd like you to build this super simple CRUD app for us, it's basically just a... ". And months later we're still publishing new code & updates because it's never "just this" and never "super simple". So I guess it's going to take a while until AI gets to this point. Oh, and the other very popular request that we get is "Hey, we have an app built with and we…
IMHO, if no breaking through, we'll probably never get there, based on whatever we have right now in so called AI field.
Re: Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
#23Without the need for humans, it’ll just be “CUD”
Re: Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure I get paid to take everybody's collective best guess at what requirements should be (sometimes with way too many people involved giving their concerns/opinions, or just not being able to get anybody's attention and everybody rubber stamping it/half-assing it), put it in QA/CAT/UAT, let somebody else bang on it, then we all figure out in our effort to try to not miss anything, we missed a bunch of mass…
Ha, sounds familiar. I doubt AI will be able to automate that sophisticated process ;) I suppose AI needs to be able to reason and we are still a long long time away from AGI according to experts. Btw, what’s the CAT step?
client accessible testing/user accessible testing
another environment before prod but not internal only so our “clients” can hit it for testing
Re: Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha, sounds familiar. I doubt AI will be able to automate that sophisticated process ;) I suppose AI needs to be able to reason and we are still a long long time away from AGI according to experts. Btw, what’s the CAT step?
client accessible testing/user accessible testing another environment before prod but not internal only so our “clients” can hit it for testing
Thanks. Where I've worked we only had Dev > QA > UAT > Prod - so not heard of CAT before.
Re: Ask HN: How will AI impact the future of CRUD apps?
#26In my experience, CRUD apps are complicated with business requirements and therefore bespoke business logic. AI will definitely assist with getting apps up and running but there will still need to be someone who takes the requirements, turns it into a functional product, updates it, maintains it and owns it. I doubt it will be business/stakeholder people interacting with the AI. It could potentially be business analy…
>Their job will be to create the solution/product even if they're not writing code.
Yep.
You can make a good argument that today, any technical profession doesn't have to know as much because of existing software in most any given sector, whether its CAD software with built in stress/CFD analysis for mechanical parts, or frameworks for actual software development that are larger building blocks then pure code.
In the same way, future software engineers will likely be using generative software based on models like GPT that can take plaintext English and translate it into code. There will still be knowledge required of which model to run, what the parameters do, how to tweak the output, e.t.c
Of course, in the further future (although exponentially less time), those engineers will no longer be needed because there will be general models trained on all of their work as well. But really though, at that point, we wouldn't be that far from AGI.