A coder considers the waning days of the craft
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft
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Re: A coder considers the waning days of the craft
#2It's interesting and kind of a bummer that all this learning is made obsolete.
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#3Article itself feels like it was written by LLM - unnecessarily long, pretentious and boring without much of a substance. But hey, folks from this forum aren't the target audience for 'Newyorker'!
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#4FYI - many public libraries let you auto-checkout the New Yorker to your free Overdrive account and you can read online or on your phone. I was surprised how easy it has become.
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#5>At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed
Wow, this guys working on rocket science, everyone. Watch out! We might get replaced!
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#6Maybe I’m in the minority. I’m definitely extremely impressed with GPT4, but coding to me was never really the point of software development.
While GPT4 is incredible, it fails OFTEN. And it fails in ways that aren’t very clear. And it fails harder when there’s clearly not enough training resources on the subject matter.
But even hypothetically if it was 20x better, wouldn’t that be a good thing? There’s so much of the world that would be better off if GOOD software was cheaper and easier to make.
Idk where I’m going with this but if coding is something you genuinely enjoy, AI isn’t stopping anyone from doing their hobby. I don’t really see it going away any time soon, and even if it is going away it just never really seemed like the point of software engineering
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#7Article itself feels like it was written by LLM - unnecessarily long, pretentious and boring without much of a substance. But hey, folks from this forum aren't the target audience for 'Newyorker'!
Do you agree or disagree with the premise of the article
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#8It's interesting and kind of a bummer that all this learning is made obsolete.
It reminds me of the days when electronics hobbyists -- and plenty of older engineers -- had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the vacuum-tube era.
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#9Article itself feels like it was written by LLM - unnecessarily long, pretentious and boring without much of a substance. But hey, folks from this forum aren't the target audience for 'Newyorker'!
I’m pretty sure New Yorker writer is the first job that LLMs will replace.
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#10I don't feel like we are in the waning days of the craft at all. Most of the craft is creating an understanding between people and software and most human programmers are still bad at it. AI might replace some programmers but none who program as a craft.