Posted on 07/05/2023 9:43:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
ChapGPT can work assuming everything takes “The Happy Path”, which basically happens once in a blue moon.
Or, programming will just be a part of a bigger job.
Just like all kinds of jobs, require some level of proficiency in Excel.
I love coding! I love all that other stuff too!
What I really need from AI is to go sit and vegitate at all my meetings for me.
Apparently, that’s a problem with ChatGPT, it doesn’t know when to stop making stuff up: “hallucinating”
I heard the same thing in 1985
Back in my day over %80 of the cost of a software system was in maintaining it. I suspect that is still true.
Keep the programmers and replace the USERS with AI. That would be progress.
I always liked COBOL, it was way ahead of its’ time.
“That’s a bingo! Teach your kids how to fix things in any trade. That knowledge will keep them free.”
Thanks, but not sure if it will keep them free - but it will give them the best chance of it!
I’ve written and maintained lots of COBOL code, but RPG and it’s many variations is my mainstay. But they all pretty much have the same basic model. Input, process, output.
>> What I really need from AI is to go sit and vegitate at all my meetings for me.
LOL. I’m in alignment with ya there! (Writing while multitasking in yet another interminable Teams meeting.)
The last project I worked on before I retired was well over one million lines of code. It was written in Java, Java Script, Python, Fortran, C, C++, and TCL/TK.
You would have to teach AI to be really, really stupid to even attempt something like that!
>> Keep the programmers and replace the USERS with AI.
“PIBKAC”
BWAHAHAHAHAAH
This guys a liar, he’s just pushing this crap to put money in his pocket. The snake oil is deep right now in AI, and the naive are falling for it faster than they fell for self driving cars.
This guy is just another Elizabeth Holmes/Sam Bankman-Fried huckster.
Anyone believing programming is going away is a grade A fool.
This topic is waaay over my head. But I know what the tech advancements have done to farming. 60 years ago I was 9 and already a seasoned farmhand, driving equipment almost daily. The average cornbelt farm was about 240 acres, with 2-3 men doing the work.
Nowadays, with pesticides (weed and insect), programed computers, gps, and the interconnected systems, we are reaching the point where the farm tractor/combine/sprayer doesn’t need an operator riding it.
The farmer I help during spring planting and harvest covers almost 6,000 acres. 5 months out of the year he needs 6-7 people. The rest of the year 3 workers can handle the load.
Tech advancements have always reduced manpower requirements. Look at airliners: used to be 3 in the cockpit, now there’s 2.
Not only that, AI does not have Institutional Knowledge. If the user doesn’t know what they really want, AI is pretty useless to them.
Artificial intelligence will never conquer natural stupidity.
I've been in the industry for over 50 years. The last time I saw "well written requirements" was in 1973 when I wrote software for the Sky Lab mission.
Its been a crap shoot everywhere else unless I wrote the requirements myself.
That is a stroke of genius.
One of my college professors told me that anyone who will program in RPG would suck eggs. ;-D
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