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Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features
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#12I really think the current paradigm of literally typing if else logic all day into programs, and then getting paid huge money to do so will go away. Programming is going to be much higher level and accessible, though still complex. It will take five years or so. Edit: My prediction is essentially that: You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided…
Wow you were doing that?
And I’m sitting around here architecting code, rewriting graphs, and gathering input from stakeholders.
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#13I really think the current paradigm of literally typing if else logic all day into programs, and then getting paid huge money to do so will go away. Programming is going to be much higher level and accessible, though still complex. It will take five years or so. Edit: My prediction is essentially that: You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided…
That's what they thought 50 years ago. Programming is not anymore "mov eax,1" and "int 0x80". Programming nowadays is much more highly accessible than it was 50 years ago... but still only a few (programmers) do it. AI is not going to change that (i.e., nor my manager nor my mother are suddendly going to "program" anything using high-level constructs)
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#14I really think the current paradigm of literally typing if else logic all day into programs, and then getting paid huge money to do so will go away. Programming is going to be much higher level and accessible, though still complex. It will take five years or so. Edit: My prediction is essentially that: You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided…
Who is typing if else logic all day into programs? Not even as a junior did I do this.
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#15I'm tired of Google announcing something in the future; wake me up when it's actually out.
Are you kidding? Google's main product is waiting lists.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bi-furcation of programmer careers will intensify. Think of it like hedge fund traders vs stay-at-home retail traders. The closer you are to the core AI stack, the more you will get paid - kind of like hedgefund traders. If you are just copy pasting ChatGPT mostly, then you will get disintermediated at some point.
I disagree with this as well. The number of people legitimately working on LLMs right now is probably only in the hundreds. One or a few huge models will do all the programming automation. But yes, high paying developer jobs will exist. The rest will not pay as well, and with much worse job security. This field is going to change very fast
> This field is going to change very fast
It will be slowed by bureaucracy.
Example: To be SOC 2 compliant, you need to have change management controls in place. How do humans manage change management if an AI is doing everything for the humans? Would humans still be doing code reviews? (AI might be so great where code reviews are obsolete, but compliance / regulations may still require humans in the loop)
There's also a -huge- subset of software that is extremely mission critical or heavily regulated by compliance where all current compliance frameworks assume there's a human in the loop. Ripping the human out of the loop would require re-writing the regulations / standards (which I guess AI could help with) but I think the change will come slower than you're predicting.
Change won't be slower because of any technological barrier necessarily (this is debatable), but because it will absolutely take a very long time for humans to fully trust AI and its output.
The era we're in currently feels like where Tesla was a few years ago. Really cool concepts and proof that self-driving "works", but there are so many edge cases which limit its complete roll-out and makes the original promise of "everything will be self driving in 5 years" seemingly achievable, but 5 years later it hasn't been achieved, and remains simply an assistive technology with many limitations.
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#17I really think the current paradigm of literally typing if else logic all day into programs, and then getting paid huge money to do so will go away. Programming is going to be much higher level and accessible, though still complex. It will take five years or so. Edit: My prediction is essentially that: You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided…
Thinking logically isn't going out of fashion any time soon. Excel lets you fit increasingly higher order polynomials to a time series graph but you still need someone to tell them that's not a good forecast
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#18I really think the current paradigm of literally typing if else logic all day into programs, and then getting paid huge money to do so will go away. Programming is going to be much higher level and accessible, though still complex. It will take five years or so. Edit: My prediction is essentially that: You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided…
That's what they thought 50 years ago. Programming is not anymore "mov eax,1" and "int 0x80". Programming nowadays is much more highly accessible than it was 50 years ago... but still only a few (programmers) do it. AI is not going to change that (i.e., nor my manager nor my mother are suddendly going to "program" anything using high-level constructs)
You may be right, you may be wrong.
Only time will tell (and I think it will tell really really soon).
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#19> Democratizing machine learning for everyone: Anyone with an internet connection can access Colab, and use it free of charge. Millions of students use Colab every month to learn Python programming and machine learning. Under-resourced groups everywhere access Colab free of charge, accessing high-powered GPUs for machine learning applications.
Ugh, cringe. Just say this is a panic swing at an existential threat (OpenAI) and you're trying to commiditize them.
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