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<blockquote data-quote="Hacker News" data-source="post: 76525" data-attributes="member: 365">We've all seen it - ChatGPT genuinely solving coding puzzles. Clearly, clearly, that's a long way from building MVP products, designing new programming languages or writing &quot;Hello World&quot; in Haskell. But it's also a long way since even GPT-3, never mind status quo 10 years ago. It would be cool to discuss what a future looks like where &quot;human operators&quot; of programming are competing against a machine. I don't think it is imminent, but equally I think it's less imminent than I did a week ago.Some threads that come to mind:- Are these language models better than current offshore outsourced coders? These can code too, sort of, and yet they don't threaten the software industry (much).- What would SEs do if any layperson can say &quot;hey AI slave, write me a program that...&quot;? What would we, literally, do? Are there other, undersaturated professions we'd go into, where analytical thinking is required? Could we, ironically, wake up in a future where thinking skills are taken over by machine, and it's other skills - visual, physical labour, fine motor skills - that remain unautomated?- Are we even the first ones in the firing line? Clearly, for now AI progress is mostly in text-based professions; we haven't seen a GPT equivalent for video comprehension, for example. Are lawyers at risk? Writers?- What can SEs do, realistically, to protect themselves? Putting the genie back in the bottle is not, as discussed many times in other threads, an option.- Or is it all bogus (with justification), and we're fine?No doubt ChatGPT will chip in...<hr />Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863749" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863749</a>Points: 17# Comments: 18<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863749" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hacker News, post: 76525, member: 365"] We've all seen it - ChatGPT genuinely solving coding puzzles. Clearly, [I]clearly[/I], that's a long way from building MVP products, designing new programming languages or writing "Hello World" in Haskell. But it's also a long way since even GPT-3, never mind status quo 10 years ago. It would be cool to discuss what a future looks like where "human operators" of programming are competing against a machine. I don't think it is imminent, but equally I think it's less imminent than I did a week ago. Some threads that come to mind: - Are these language models better than current offshore outsourced coders? These can code too, sort of, and yet they don't threaten the software industry (much). - What would SEs do if any layperson can say "hey AI slave, write me a program that..."? What would we, literally, do? Are there other, undersaturated professions we'd go into, where analytical thinking is required? Could we, ironically, wake up in a future where thinking skills are taken over by machine, and it's other skills - visual, physical labour, fine motor skills - that remain unautomated? - Are we even the first ones in the firing line? Clearly, for now AI progress is mostly in text-based professions; we haven't seen a GPT equivalent for video comprehension, for example. Are lawyers at risk? Writers? - What can SEs do, realistically, to protect themselves? Putting the genie back in the bottle is not, as discussed many times in other threads, an option. - Or is it all bogus (with justification), and we're fine? No doubt ChatGPT will chip in... [HR][/HR] Comments URL: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863749[/URL] Points: 17 # Comments: 18 [url="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863749"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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