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by tux3
1291 days ago
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Someone on /r/rust is currently marveling that it spit out a working bitmap allocator: https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/zgkuq6/ ChatGPT is sensitive to how you prompt it, and it's designed to work as a dialogue where you ask further questions and it can refine its answer. It can already write reasonable working code, although you shouldn't expect it to spit out entire working programs when the prompt is Gimme Teh Codez without further details. That being said, AI capabilities only get better with time, so I think it'd be shortsighted to dismiss its potential because of its current limitations. If the pace keeps up, companies with access to large language models in a few years could have a large advantage on legacy programming, the same way programmers in high-level languages have a massive productivity advantage on 1970's low-level assembly programmers. You give up a little more control, but you save time. |
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Not just that: for an average programmer the compiler will optimize the code much better than if it was done by hand. Something similar can happen down the lane.