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by jart 1219 days ago
What's more likely to happen is "no human written code allowed". I could easily imagine a future where people are socially ostracized for writing code manually because it's dangerous, unsafe, and insecure. In that future, Rust developers will get a taste of how they made C / C++ programmers feel.
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Verdex 1219 days ago
I mean either it works or it doesn't. That is, either I can ask the AI to solve literally any problem that I have or I still need a software engineer to tell me why my goals are stupid and ill formed.

So for example I ask the AI to program a replacement for dentists. The AI tells me that you can't fix dentistry with software. So I ask it what could fix dentistry and ask it to program that. And the AI can't program that either. But you just keep asking for the solution to the thing that the AI cant solve and eventually you get it to spit out some gcode for a 3D printer and you bootstrap your way up to AI replaced dentistry.

So either the AI can replace anything or you need some person who can translate domain knowledge into source code.

Yeah eventually rust devs get their comeuppance but in that day they're also the last employed human profession.

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jart 1218 days ago
Traditionally speaking people used the word God to describe someone who's capable of solving every problem. Talk about raising the bar. Sure you'll need a person. That person could be an AI.
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Verdex 1218 days ago
> Talk about raising the bar.

Uh, no I guess my point is that once all of the programmers/software engineers/software developers are out of a job, then everyone else will be as well. I think that if there's literally anyone else working because the AI can't do their job in totality, then there's also a (potential) reason for that person to want some sort of human software developer.

But when everyone can avoid human software developers because the AI can do it, then everyone else can avoid every human professional because the AI can do it.

It would not surprise me if this is a gradual process where at some point there is a 50/50 mix of humans and AI doing software development.

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