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So it begins! AI is going to permeate an increasing amount of existing software. Eventually, all software will have some form of intelligence built into it.
And hence no new features will ever be created, since training is only on existing code!
Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.
Like it or not, gpt3 has signalled a massive change in toolset power and this is just the start.
Times have changed, we move with them or we will be left behind.
Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.
Eh, that's some abstraction there
Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.
I don't think you're an outlier, but you will become one if you don't adapt to the inevitable. Like it or not, gpt3 has signalled a massive change in toolset power and this is just the start. Times have changed, we move with them or we will be left behind.
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Agreed. There is quickly going to be a bigger chasm between the best devs and average/bad devs bc of LLMs.
Yes. The best race car drivers use an automatic transmission if that’s 0.5 seconds faster per lap. In fact driver aids had to be actively banned in many racing series. Just to make it more fun for spectators.
And yes, the point of these racing regulations is to make it at least optically a driver skill competition, not just who can throw more money at a pretty mundane challenge of getting from A to B the fastest. (If not for those regulations, since the track is known to the centimeter, the fastest driver would probably be the lightest one because it would be dead weight.)
Thankfully software engineering challenges are far from mundane, so the chasm will indeed grow
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I don't think you're an outlier, but you will become one if you don't adapt to the inevitable. Like it or not, gpt3 has signalled a massive change in toolset power and this is just the start. Times have changed, we move with them or we will be left behind.
As soon as opt out is implemented training data will stop to grow and we're back to skills mattering
Having an en masse respected opt out from data collection on the internet is wishful thinking. Don’t expect that any time soon.
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Yes. The best race car drivers use an automatic transmission if that’s 0.5 seconds faster per lap. In fact driver aids had to be actively banned in many racing series. Just to make it more fun for spectators.
Performance with auto transmission says less about the driver but more about the tech team. And yes, the point of these racing regulations is to make it at least optically a driver skill competition, not just who can throw more money at a pretty mundane challenge of getting from A to B the fastest. (If not for those regulations, since the track is known to the centimeter, the fastest driver would probably be the ligh…
Yes, if you let AI/tooling/interns do the mundane parts, you’ll have more time for the good parts