It was a moment for our time — two long-time Go programmers pondering the future of their language, and how it will be impacted by AI...
"The bar to accept deliverables is very low..." said Quebec-based programmer Dominic St-Pierre, who's been building software systems for the last two decades. And after running some tests with Claude, "I'm sorry, but it's not good code. And I would not want to be in a team that produced that kind of code." Laughing, he said, "I don't want to maintain code that the AI generates, because it's mostly not good."
During an interview on St. Pierre's podcast, Go author John Arundel pushed back. Is bad software produced by AI any worse than bad software produced by humans? St. Pierre believes "The amount of things that the AI is outputting is overwhelming!"
But Arundel says "I've decided that I'm going to feel optimistic, reasoning this is going to bring lots of people into the world of programming, which is a fun world..."
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