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Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
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Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
#22Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
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In reality you'll be the one figuring out the boring stuff that the AI can't do.
Yeah. Integrating the 99.9% correct code into already existing systems sounds like the software job of the future.
It might not actually get that effective, but it's certainly wrong to expect to only get fun stuff to do. The AI might actually have decent output when it comes to architecture too. I personally haven't seen such amazing AI but I could accept that it might exist now or in my lifetime.
Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
#24Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.
I wasn't worried until Google showed up with a 1M token context with 99.9% recall...
GPT4, as smart and impressive as it is, starts forgetting or confusing key instructions with as few as 500 tokens (in my experimentation). Practically speaking the advertised 32k context window could be a few orders of magnitude smaller depending on what you're asking it to do!
Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
#25Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.
As a software engineer, no, there's no reason to be worried. But what if you were a wordpress developer where a big chunk of your work can be automated?
Do you seriously think WP is just about blogs? I'd say majority of WP sites are now ecommerce, the amount of different plugins interacting based on local markets needs with custom tweaks, integrations to local courier APIs, payment systems and the general fudginess of the codebase I'll be very surprised if this can be automated. Your general FAANG proto pusher SWE will be the first to go.
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Just wait until ai invents its own npm that people are no longer able to understand. Good luck with that.
But AI is trained on data that exists right now. The more likely scenario is that it builds its own npm that is similar to npm and still sucks.
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Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
#27Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.
How many architecture does a company need? Realistically if they succeed you'll be unemployed.
Great, so it will be super fast/cheap to build more companies.
Re: Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
In reality you'll be the one figuring out the boring stuff that the AI can't do.
Yeah. Integrating the 99.9% correct code into already existing systems sounds like the software job of the future.
Frankly it sounds not far off from the software job of the present. The correct code is largely the easy part in my experience, but this could be because I struggle immensely with learning each company/department/projects esoteric CI/CD pipelines
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Yeah. Integrating the 99.9% correct code into already existing systems sounds like the software job of the future.
That, and requirements capture, and prompt writing.
When AI gets good enough to really displace programmers, it probably won't require as much supervision as it does today. It might feel more like the AI is prompting you instead of the other way around... But idk, it remains to be seen just how good it will actually get.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many architecture does a company need? Realistically if they succeed you'll be unemployed.
Great, so it will be super fast/cheap to build more companies.
The people and skillsets to successfully run a company have little overlap with strong software engineers. It happens, but no where near the numbers of engineers out there.
Plus if you kill off many engineers jobs, who is left to buy your products?