Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "What will AI Programming look like in 5 Years?" video.

  1. Yeah, I don't hate technologies so much as I distrust them. Most are made so that some company can get as much money as possible from minimal effort; I wish software copyright were like book copyright or something, so that every project would be required to provide users with the source so that 1) it was more transparent and 2) terrible code in widely-used programs could be publicly humiliated (discouraging companies from rushing devs).
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  2. "Robot slave sees to humans' every need! This makes life easier and better for everyone!" lol nope, just increases alienation, decreases our control over the outcome, decreases demand for programmers without providing us with a clear role to transition to, and in reality only helps companies that can afford the 60.000 € subscription to devAI giving them an even greater competitive edge. That's assuming the AI rapidly becomes "perfect"...if not it'll be decades of companies starting a project with it, then hiring a bunch of devs to try and solve the critical bugs (potentially in an incomprehensible codebase) that are causing production user data to be leaked and stuff.
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  3. What sorts of questions do you ask?
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  4. The good news is that at the moment one programmer with the help of AI can do the work of 0,4.
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  5. No, you the user wouldn't necessarily want that, but I can guarantee you that most software companies would love to pay fewer programmers.
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  6. The worst is it'll find something on StackOverflow and use that, but then realize it doesn't work because some dipshit just copied an answer from chatGPT.
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  7. If Microsoft wants to, definitely. They get away with a lot... Seriously though, if AI can write code then intellectual property for software needs to be abolished as a concept. There would be no arguments left for keeping it around.
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  8. It won't, chances are companies will be paying Microsoft billions to use AzureDevAI
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  9. I'm a fairly junior programmer, and the stuff I've gotten to work on has been so boring compared to my personal projects. Not just because I don't care about the program, the requirements are interesting, but like...guys, not everything needs to be written exactly the same way. Seriously, everything seems to be done with classes, not structs (even where value-type semantics would be better), it's like people are scared of using a class directly rather than in interface for that class (the other day I was asked in peer review why I'd defined the return type of a method as a List<T> rather than an IEnumerable<T> when the method created the new list internally 🙄), abstract classes seem to be a largely forgotten concept, not to mention the "clean coders" who will spend half an hour of review time debating something really trivial but then when asked about the performance implications of writing a LINQ statement one way versus another can't say anything on the subject. I'm trying to switch from C# to C for my next job, in the hope that the C crowd will have a more performance-oriented perspective. Unfortunately most of the openings are for C# and Java webservices and stuff though.
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  10. You would think, but people will do virtually anything for a price. And you don't have to have that many people, and there are a ton of devs to choose from.
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  11. I'd guess the limits of AI would be the amount of computing power we're willing to dedicate to it, which in turn is limited by raw resources. Note I haven't mentioned anything about environmentalism slowing things down; history seems to imply that as much as we like to talk about doing things in a greener way, every time there are possibilities for perceived convenience or lower prices we tend to jump on the chance.
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  12. The issue I have with what I've seen of Copilot is it's too helpful. If a tool lets you not understand a regex, you're not going to try to understand the regex, and then you'll wonder why your code breaks in certain specific situations. Just learn the tech, don't rely on tools that give you vague translations of what you're seeing all the time or you'll cripple yourself.
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