[warent]

This is such a vague comment that it's pretty near impossible to reply to in a very constructive way.

By my estimation it seems probable that we'll end up in the near future with some Jira integration that has an "auto fix" button on tickets. Possibly PMs or managers will be empowered to replace a large chunk of work that is currently done by people like me... and these things are only the beginning!

If you were thinking of something more severe then I'm curious what you're referring to? Otherwise I'm not sure what your point is.

[antibasilisk]

My point is that if a machine can write more or less any program, then the artistic merit of programming falls away completely. It's instead replaced by a slurry of incomprehensible nonsense that simply works for some reason.

[RedNifre]

Yeah, like a binary today, right?

What's the problem if the new "source code" is all prompts written in natural language and the classical code is just a build artifact?

[pedrosorio]

There is no way to have all source code in natural language because natural language is ambiguous. There is no way to debug natural language not doing the right thing.

[antibasilisk]

The problem is that even a Scratch project has greater artistic merit than that.

[wnkrshm]

The reason being tests/constraints specified by someone designing the software.

[tekknik]

Ask GPT to design a program. I’m not sure if people commenting along these lines are serious or lying to themselves. AI is moving faster than any other tech in history, and that’s really saying something.

It’s not hard to see where this is heading. And the goal is to automate away everything so we humans can just kick our feet up.