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> People of every background will soon be able to create code to solve their everyday problems and improve their lives using AI, and we’d like to help make this happen Yeah, this is not going to happen. Anyone who has ever tried to gather requirements for software knows that users don't know what they want (clients especially lmao.) The language they use won't be detailed enough to create anything meaningful. Do you…
> People of every background will soon be able to create code to solve their everyday problems and improve their lives using AI, and we’d like to help make this happen Yeah, this is not going to happen. Anyone who has ever tried to gather requirements for software knows that users don't know what they want (clients especially lmao.) The language they use won't be detailed enough to create anything meaningful. Do you…
It’s true that they won’t know how to exactly specify their needs. But they can share input and output examples and iterate on the solution.
I know folks without any programming background using ChatGPT to write code for them.
The code doesn’t work right off the bat but by iterating with the agent they can either get a solution or solve a portion of the problem.
> People of every background will soon be able to create code to solve their everyday problems and improve their lives using AI, and we’d like to help make this happen Yeah, this is not going to happen. Anyone who has ever tried to gather requirements for software knows that users don't know what they want (clients especially lmao.) The language they use won't be detailed enough to create anything meaningful. Do you…
I do believe there will be a day where we communicate what we need and software is written on the fly to facilitate that need. For better or worse.
Just like everytime people hyping a technology have said this with something else where “AI” is but otherwise an identical claim, no, it didn’t happen last time, its not happening this time, and there’s a pretty good chance its not happening next time, either.
> People of every background will soon be able to create code to solve their everyday problems and improve their lives using AI, and we’d like to help make this happen Yeah, this is not going to happen. Anyone who has ever tried to gather requirements for software knows that users don't know what they want (clients especially lmao.) The language they use won't be detailed enough to create anything meaningful. Do you…
The point is the nuance of writing code is now no longer an elitist act that strikes the egos of those who understand the intricacies, it’s now democratized and in the hands of anyone. It’s not “good code” but it can be. It’s a kin to hiring your nephew that says he can code but can’t really other than stdio stuff but at least has the right attitude and asks the right questions. I do believe there will be a day where…
Insofar as anything like that was ever true, it still is.
Not that writing code has ever been the hard part of software development.
> People of every background will soon be able to create code to solve their everyday problems and improve their lives using AI, and we’d like to help make this happen Yeah, this is not going to happen. Anyone who has ever tried to gather requirements for software knows that users don't know what they want (clients especially lmao.) The language they use won't be detailed enough to create anything meaningful. Do you…
It’s about giving the domain experts who understand what the requirements should be a way to build something without having to have the domain knowledge of code.
It hasn't been solved any better this time, either.
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The reason that people need to gather precise requirements that are precise is because the specifications -> product loop is long. Imprecision results in lots of wasted effort. If that loop is shortened drastically, then trying, checking and tweaking is suddenly a much more viable design method. That doesn’t require a precise set of requirements.
> That doesn’t require a precise set of requirements. this exactly. If the AI could make something that semi works, and you check the output, and repeat until you find the output satisfying, then it will be one of the biggest improvements to software development. Sure, you wouldn't use it to write mission critical software such as aviation, etc. But you'd use it to automate the sorting of your email, or write a quick…
Let me tell you, with some of the tickets I've had to deal with I do not think most people could actually describe the problem accurately enough to an AI to actually fix the issue.
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I think the problem with that is the same reason why "no code" platforms struggle to succeed. Writing software without understanding control flow or libraries or APIs is practically impossible. Instead of being a liberating experience like it should be, it becomes a confining and frustrating one where you don't understand what is and isn't possible. LLMs will work really well when developers know what they want and h…
That is true. I have seen this first hand with bpmn tools such as camunda, where the analysts simply cannot wrap their head around it. However, over time you will need to describe less and less of the code for a large majority of use cases. I expect Generative AI will be able to take more generic prompts based on a specific vendor and really generate more with less prompting given context of whatever you are targetin…
Over the same time, the sophistication demanded of software will expand to more than offset this.
Source: this process of advancing tooling and advancing demands has been going on the whole time software has existed, with a consistent pattern.
Is it good at algos? From interviews: Implement queue that supports three methods: * push * pop * peek(i) peek returns element by its index. All three methods should have O(1) complexity [write code in Ruby]. ChatGPT wasn't able to solve that last time I tried https://twitter.com/romanpushkin/status/1617037136364199938
in what world is a hashtable lookup worst case O(1)? Your own solution doesn't match your requirements. If you want amortized complexity then a simple vector suffices.
2. The average complexity to search, insert, and delete data in a hash table is O(1), for interviews it works 99% of the time.
3. There is alternative O(1) solution you're looking for, I'll leave this exercise to you, bro. As well as the other exercise of being less toxic and a bit more respectful to people you don't know online lol.