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by colechristensen 715 days ago
Why? It will evolve into a slightly higher level language where the compiler is an ML model. Was it a tragedy when developers mostly didn’t have to write assembly any more?
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I think it's different... I like high level languages, but this is not a programming language, this is a technique for writing tests in an existing language and leaving the implementation to the AI.

I like programming for problem solving, I don't really like writing tests, but that's personal taste, a lot of people like to just use PowerPoint and Jira and tell others what they need to implement, but these people are not software developers.

> Was it a tragedy when developers mostly didn’t have to write assembly any more?

It wasn't, but for starters compilers have always been generally deterministic.

I'm not saying that this is completely useless (I personally think code completion tools such as GitHub CoPilot are fantastic), but it is still early to compare it to a compiler.