ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job
While we are locked once again in a heated debate about the future of our professions in the wake of ChatGPT, this article digs deep in to our past to reveal similar discussions surrounding of advancements in computer programming throughout history
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-coding-software-crisis/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_2b9de8e4-8cbb-4a80-a076-a6fe0b294817_popular4-1Open linkView original on lemmy.world
Haha indeed! This will really become a very interesting application of the idea that history repeats itself - will AI really be different enough from previous technological advances to require different rules? Or will it be subject to the same technophobe vs. futurist arguments that always lead to gentle and inevitable integration? I’m reminded of how in some places when cars were first invented a bloke would have to walk in front of them slowly with flags to warn pedestrians and horses of the oncoming dreaded automobile
Yeah if it's vomiting out code all over the place then that's even more auditing real humans are going to have to do... which means we'll have more coding jobs! Hooray!
Like all things, it will become a good tool for those who use it.
AI isn't coming for your job yet, it likes to Edge for a while first
does make you wonder though, it’s probably not going to be programmers who lose their jobs first, it will probably be a decent chunk of the people who currently earn their keep making content for coomers. Chat GPT and it’s friends will be making “useable” adult content long before they replace other things