[ericrallen]

That sounds a lot like gatekeeping.

These tools will empower folks who aren’t developers to build stuff and maybe learn a bit more about how programming works.

They will enable folks who have ideas, but can’t express them, to actually be able to create what they are imagining.

That’s awesome.

Code isn’t beautiful (except for a few rare exceptions). Creating something with code is.

[gloosx]

I agree it is a great tool for learning, but I don't believe anything more complex or of real use can be made AND maintained with it.

[ericrallen]

I think we’re probably way to early in the AI lifecycle to really form any strongly held beliefs yet.

In the 11 months since ChatGPT was released, things have come a long way. Who knows where we’ll be in another 11 months.

[gloosx]

What I'm trying to say is that the problem is not approachable this way at all – efficiently generating code by describing what you want, since when you compress what you want into a prompt you lose the details, and in order to restore all of them you will need a much bigger prompt volume than code generated. Because it is code itself which compresses an idea but no idea can compress the code well enough. In another 11 months it will be exactly in the same spot - it will not be able to be more efficient at this task by the nature of it.