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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • From a business perspective, no shareholder cares at how good an employee is at personally achieving a high degree of skill. They only care about selling and earning, and to a lesser degree an enduring reputation for longer term earnings.

    Economics could very well drive this forward. But I don’t think the craft will be lost. People will need to supervise this progress as well as collaborate with the machines to extend its capabilities and dictate its purposes.

    I couldn’t tell you if we’re talking on a time scale of months or decades, but I do think “we” will get there.


  • I’m my experience they do a decent job of whipping out mindless minutea and things that are well known patterns in very popular languages.

    They do not solve problems.

    I think for an “AI” product to be truly useful at writing code it would need to incorporate the LLM as a mere component, with something facilitating checks through static analysis and maybe some other technologies, maybe even mulling the result through a loop over the components until they’re all satisfied before finally delivering it to the user as a proposal.