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Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

swader999 wrote: post #39
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think my barber and my plumber have safer jobs from automation than average coders.

I think we'll all get more productive is all. There's a lot of projects that just weren't economical but now may become so. The bigger disruption will occur when Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc become useless from all the AI spam that's sure to overwhelm it all.

But here's the question. If these tools make existing devs 10x more productive, why bother hiring new people in the field?

Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by LeftHandPath »

Are software engineers going to go the way of human “computers”?

I know GPT-4 won’t put us all out of work, but I worry that something could in a number of decades I can count on one hand. Of course, it would be gradual.

I am excited, disappointed, and as a young person who hopes to be a SWE for a long time, somewhat afraid.

Then again, it could be argued that this merely means GPT4 is a compiler…

Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by xur17 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #22
stuff20230314 wrote: post #12

That's cool and all, but can it do "in this existing code, please amend this feature"? Also useful, "please cover this code with meaningful unit tests"?

> Also useful, "please cover this code with meaningful unit tests"? GPT-3.5 is already really good at that. If you aren't using ChatGPT for your unit tests I'd suspect you're on a Performance Improvement Plan by now

What portion of the code do you feed it as an input?

Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by smcl »

recuter wrote: post #14

Remember the comments about artists and creatives when DALL-E came out? I remember.

I remember it came out at the same time as GitHub copilot and a lot of people here said we might need to confront the idea that some development roles may not be long for this earth.

Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by sualehasif »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #33
jeffbee wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the kinds of people who would write a python program in C++ are in trouble.

Maybe it can translate python code to C++. That is interesting. I need to try that.

It definitely should be able to. Any example you would like me to try. Put in an issue and we will do it.

Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by xur17 »

cbsks wrote: post #15
flatiron wrote: post #4

Any concerns about sending code directly to a third party? I’m very hesitant to use any tool that is sending my assets to the cloud to be used who knows how.

The large tech company I work at explicitly told us not to upload code or any private company info to ChatGPT or similar services. I assume other companies have the same policy.

I imagine openai will offer self hosted versions of this at some point for enterprises.

Re: GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

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Post by beepbooptheory »

Honestly at this point I am just looking forward to us taking this stuff for granted. Its all very nice and useful, but I think my threshold for guffawing at it is smaller than most.

I know we still got some time left in the cycle, but I just want people to calm down and just start using it.

Yes, cool, you did xyz all at once, but what did you make with it? It's kinda akin to the whole "using rust" phenomenon. I only marginally care that you made it in rust, I care more about the thing itself you made!

I don't wanna come off sounding prescriptive, certainly stay in the hype world as long as you want, and I know there was a new bigger and better model that came out less than 12hrs ago. But just personally I am looking forward to the inevitable future where how you made the thing stops being as or more important as the what. Just miss the sense of inspiration you can gleam from someone else's work. Don't think AI will obsolete that ever, however much it can obsolete boilerplate code and even tricky discrete problems.

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