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by elforce002 1246 days ago
I'd assume everyone else is also taking this as satire. There's no way any business will handle business logic to a black box.
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> There's no way any business will handle business logic to a black box.

You mean, a black box like a programmer's brain? An AI backend will get used if it's demonstrably better on any dimension. The current iteration is no doubt a bit of a toy, but don't underestimate it.

It seems incredibly obvious that you could turn this into a real product, where the LLM generates the code once based on a high-level description of a schema and an API, and caches it until the description changes somehow.

GPT can generate thousands of lines of code nearly instantly, and can regenerate it all on the fly whenever you want to make a few tweaks. No more worrying about high-architecture designed to keep complexity understandable for mere humans. No code style guides or best practices. No need to manage team sizes to keep communication overheads small.

Then you train another AI to generate a fuzz test suite to check an API for violations of the API contract. Thousands of tests checking every possible corner case, again generated nearly instantly.

Don't underestimate where this could go. The current version linked here is a limited prototype of what's to come.

How many businesses operate at the whims of an Excel spreadsheet, hewing to the output of cell C1? A spreadsheet who's creation myth sits alongside a departed founder and no one really knows how it works.
I believe you. Heck, I personally know a business that only uses a PC to watch CCTV footage.
I've seen too many businesses handling their business logic as a black box. I'd bet their will to BS is big enough to not care about that side-note.