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Discussion on: There will be no Programmers in 5 years

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Alois Sečkár

There will be more people using tools they don't really understand generating more weird problems that would require skilled computer engineers to identify and solve. I am not that much worried about future of programming itself.

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Paweł Ciosek

great comment! 👏

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Multignite

@aloisseckar I absolutely agree

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Yogesh Chavan • Edited

@aloisseckar What do you think about Devin, the first AI software engineer? youtube.com/watch?v=fjHtjT7GO1c

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Chris Reed

In the demo it produces a peice of software that should not have been made.

You can just ask an Ai... or Google for that data.

That was the demo, so the best case scenario is something that shouldn't exist. Something with no market differentiation, low complexity, and looks bland.

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JairusSW

Oh man, I see people coming out of college these days who primarily use AI. Imho, I think using AI stagnates my curiosity and desire to learn, so I personally don't use AI at all. I end up fixing other people's problems that AI creates

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Alois Sečkár

I use it quite often. For example one of my latest questions: "How to normalize JavaScript date to midnight?" Why should I remember the method by heart when it is just this away from asking? My job is to put this trivial knowledge into a good use in an actual aplication that is helping someone with something. I believe AI will mostly fall behind in business analysis and in transfering customer's chatotic and sometimes unspoken needs into relevant design and working code.