Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

Post by brigadier132 » Wed, May 17, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

adventured wrote: post #57

brigadier132 wrote: post #22

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Here's a different 10-year prediction. AI will become good enough to be useful for programmers but not good enough to run on its own and will remain an assistant. Given that there is a shortage of programmers, more software will be written than ever. More software will beget more software engineers. Because the output of software engineers will rise, each individual software engineer will become more valuable to thei…

10-15 years out AI will be good enough to wipe out at least half of all software developers on the planet (that is, people writing actual code). That's not a risky prediction, that's very easily going to be the case. Those people have nowhere to go to match what they're earning now. Maybe support review roles (which won't pay particularly well), where they approve decisions by the AI that are held up for human approv…

Post by rustyminnow » Wed, May 17, 2023, 5:37 PM UTC

boredemployee wrote: post #71

rustyminnow wrote: post #32

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I find that this comment adds absolutely nothing to the conversation. It could be posted under every comment that says "AI is (not)? going to revolutionize (the world|everything|this industry|my job)" Anybody making a prediction about the future might be right or might be wrong, and we won't know until it happens. This is just a snarky way of saying "nah dude you're wrong"

Wow you're so smart my guy

Post by SkyPuncher » Wed, May 17, 2023, 5:37 PM UTC

fdgsdfogijq wrote: post #68

nemothekid wrote: post #55

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> You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided. And the vanilla api is generated. Sometimes I wonder where some of the posters here work or if I'm working in a dystopia. > You give it a set of requirements for an api with edge conditions written in plain English This part is the job! If my job was 100% writing logic, it would be infinitely easier…

Someone non-technical can do the requirements gathering.

Post by BudaDude » Wed, May 17, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #56

oli5679 wrote: post #49

I find VS-code running notebooks with Colab plugin installed pretty helpful for this type of thing already. (1) run notebook in VS-code https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb... (2) install Github Copilot extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.c... and then it can quite often achieve what you want with just a comment or some previous code snippets. Then if you load…

> I find VS-code running notebooks with Colab plugin installed pretty helpful for this type of thing already. I think you meant "with the Github Copilot plugin installed".

Post by StefanWestfal » Wed, May 17, 2023, 5:40 PM UTC

adventured wrote: post #57

brigadier132 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a different 10-year prediction. AI will become good enough to be useful for programmers but not good enough to run on its own and will remain an assistant. Given that there is a shortage of programmers, more software will be written than ever. More software will beget more software engineers. Because the output of software engineers will rise, each individual software engineer will become more valuable to thei…

10-15 years out AI will be good enough to wipe out at least half of all software developers on the planet (that is, people writing actual code). That's not a risky prediction, that's very easily going to be the case. Those people have nowhere to go to match what they're earning now. Maybe support review roles (which won't pay particularly well), where they approve decisions by the AI that are held up for human approv…