[Pavilion2095]

> The relevant question is who is going to pay you to write code manually.

Hopefully companies in the industries where software quality matters and is regulated, e.g.: medicine, aviation, nuclear, etc.

Although this market is relatively small.

[jillesvangurp]

You seem to assume that people still have an inherent advantage here. Mostly those sectors compensate for well documented human failures with very rigid and expensive processes and testing. And of course despite that, stuff still goes wrong occasionally.

I actually think AI based automation is going to be a key enabler in those kinds of strict environments as well. Recent work on identifying e.g. security bugs seems to be resulting in a lot of improvement that has somehow escaped decades of human scrutiny. With good quality harnesses (manual or automated), I don't see any big objection against using generated code here.

[softwaredoug]

There are ways humans have an advantage. Not in the line by line code, but in the experience of having the whole mental model in your head.

Writing some code with the whole context in your head is the human advantage.

I’m not precious about that code. Maybe it needs to be rewritten by an agent. Or we could build good abstractions so it’s trivial to see the system. We could also use systems that by their design force us + agents away from security, performance, etc

[inigyou]

Sadly, AI can process semantic vectors in latent space much more effectively than any human.