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Is AI Dangerous For Developers?

Hasan Elsherbiny on January 12, 2024

since Chat GPT was Released a lot of people started to say "AI Will Take Our jobs" developers laughed and said "Okay We Are Irreplaceable". but als...
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Giovanni Matteo

actually i don't agree with your opinion, based on fast AI Improvement it's more likely that AI will replace a lot of jobs may include developers

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Josh Hadik

I think AI will make the average coder way more productive, let's say 10 times. The question then is... will we create 10 times as many things, or use 10% of the labor? Likely something in between.

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Hasan Elsherbiny

this is my belief too, josh

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Jason Belcher

I’ve played with chat gpt to write code. It takes detailed domain specific directions to actually get it to write half way decent code and half the time it hallucinates stuff that makes you go wtf, why? Let me ask you this, if you aren’t already skilled dev then how would you even know when it hallucinates or when it’s correct?

Sure, it’s a great sketch tool and ideation phase tool but until it can stop writing ridiculous blobs of code I have to babysit through the process our jobs are safe.

Other than that I’m glad I have a tool to use to write tedious code. Coding is tedious so have at it robot! My job is to build and design systems based on a business model. That will be the domain of programmers for a while yet.

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Well said about focusing on your skills. I think A.I will remain a tool. 1's and 0's. Learning how to communicate with it efficiently is needed before jobs are threatened. One man "thought" connected to ai could be a game changer though. "Cyborg takes our jobs!" Lol.
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