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Re: Post-GPT Computing

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I don't get some coders/devs/software engineers surprised that LLM can now pretty much create a whole code out of a prompt.

Wasn't this the final objective of the programming languages abstraction evolution? From Binary/Assembly to Natural Language Programming? I think it is awesome that more people will be able to create software/products as this accelerates innovation cycles a lot.

And, for now, I believe devs that don't rely solely on copy/paste coding from stack exchange don't need to worry about their job stability no?

Re: Post-GPT Computing

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post #4

I don't get some coders/devs/software engineers surprised that LLM can now pretty much create a whole code out of a prompt. Wasn't this the final objective of the programming languages abstraction evolution? From Binary/Assembly to Natural Language Programming? I think it is awesome that more people will be able to create software/products as this accelerates innovation cycles a lot. And, for now, I believe devs that…

Indeed, as I write, this is sorta what I have been working toward my whole career. And it's not like this was a giant leap from what ChatGPT already showed it was capable of. People have already been doing stuff like this with LangChain. Nonetheless, seeing that this was OpenAI's plan, that this is now here for real, was a weird experience for me.

Re: Post-GPT Computing

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post #4

I don't get some coders/devs/software engineers surprised that LLM can now pretty much create a whole code out of a prompt. Wasn't this the final objective of the programming languages abstraction evolution? From Binary/Assembly to Natural Language Programming? I think it is awesome that more people will be able to create software/products as this accelerates innovation cycles a lot. And, for now, I believe devs that…

Job stability is measured in years. Looking forward, assuming it improves, it’ll do more than just copy/paste code. It’ll be a senior dev capable of explaining the pros and cons of a solution, able to do code reviews and so on.

Re: Post-GPT Computing

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> OpenAI made the extraordinary and IMO under-discussed decision to use an open API specification format, where every API provider hosts a text file on their website saying how to use their API. This means even this plugin ecosystem isn’t a walled garden that only the first mover controls. I don’t fully understand why they went this way, but I’m grateful they did.

Did OpenAI just commit a trillion dollar mistake?

Re: Post-GPT Computing

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post #4

I don't get some coders/devs/software engineers surprised that LLM can now pretty much create a whole code out of a prompt. Wasn't this the final objective of the programming languages abstraction evolution? From Binary/Assembly to Natural Language Programming? I think it is awesome that more people will be able to create software/products as this accelerates innovation cycles a lot. And, for now, I believe devs that…

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Re: Post-GPT Computing

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I can't wait for the positive feedback loop of statically trained LLMs being retrained on data that was generated from the N-1th generation of statically trained LLMs.

There's so much of talk about what these models can generate, which is cool in relation to plugins, but there's still a lot of interesting code to write, companies to build, and ideas to formulate, that an LLM cannot do on its own. If you're terrified of your software engineering job becoming at risk, I urge you to just take a beat.

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