Much as you don't generally go auditing the bytecode or intermediate representation generated by your compiler, I think the idea of manually reviewing LLM-written code will fall by the wayside too. Like it or not, these agents are the new compilers, and prompting them is the new programming. Regardless of what happens with any AI bubble, this is just how things will be from now on; we've experienced a permanent, irreversible increase to the level of abstraction. We are all assembly programmers
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@stroughtonsmith are... are you sure you're on the right platform, my guy? twitter is down the hall and to the left.
@stroughtonsmith @GroupNebula563 "Down the hall and far to the right" was right there! 😉
@stroughtonsmith this is pathetic doomer bullshit and you should be ashamed for posting it. what do you actually believe in? what kind of world do you want to live in? does the suffering of others matter to you at all? does it matter to you if the world gets better or worse? do you believe society is something that people make? don't bother answering, i'll never see it. fuck you
@stroughtonsmith that is how I’ve approached the topic when explaining it at work. These are spoken-word-to-code-compilers. They aren’t nearly perfect yet, but they are much better than most people think.
We started with dozens of engineers certain there was no value. One by one they have their aha moments and learn where the value is.
To the oldest greybeards I ask “did you trust C/gcc when it came out?” And the point will usually land. Not initially they didn’t, and then eventually it got good enough.
There are a lot of indie Xcode developers having existential crises right now