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by borisk 705 days ago
Give it a try :)

I think it's early days and whyle AI can write code to deliver features it's not perfect. So someone who knows how to write code, deploy software has a basic understanding of software architecture and cyber security will have a lot more luck than someone who has to run everything through the AI.

It's similar to how computers in chess worked. At one point (around the 90s and 00s) computers could play very good chess, but they had weak spots. So the best chess player in the world was a team of humans and computers. But eventually computers got better and no longer needed any human help. I think a similar scenario may play with software development, and we're still not at the place where an AI can everything without technical input from a human.

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Yeah I've tried a few times, but never as an actual project - mostly just to see if I could make something that actually runs.

But when something didn't work I instantly ran into the issue of not knowing if I did something wrong or if the code was bad lol

FWIW, you can often feed the generated output back into the AI and ask it to troubleshoot, like "when I ran this code, I got ____ error" or "it's missing the ____, how do I fix that" and it will usually apologize and try again. It takes a few tries. But it usually does with humans too.