[eloisius]

This innovation does not seem like a natural successor to compilers, debuggers and languages. If today's programming environments still require too much boilerplate and fiddling with tools, it seems like better programming languages, environments that require less setup, etc would be a better use of time. Using GPT to spit out code you may or may not understand seems more like a successor to WSDLs and UML code generators. I really hope we're just in a wild swing of the pendulum towards complex tooling and that we swing back to simplicity before too long.

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To expand a little and not sounds so completely negative towards AI, seems like there could be value in training models to predict whether a patch will be accepted, or whether it will cause a full build to fail.