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Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year.
Submitted 1 month ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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Gregorech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Writing code is easier than understanding and reviewing another’s code. There is good reason code reviewers aren’t the interns and new hires.
My question others is, why would you want to turn into a code reviewer for AI code? It’s a shitload harder. And if the goal is anything but a weekend project, you damn well better be understanding and reviewing it critically, otherwise one is shitting up the code base and forcing others to clean up your mess.
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 month ago
Because shit for brains says we just need to train our AI models until they’re sentient. So that means we need all our workers reviewing the output of AI as much as possible until that happens.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Coding is totally obselete, bro. AI can totally write all the code, trust me bro. You just gotta know how to tell it what code to write, like learn some keywords and stuff, bro. Like, as long as you check how it produces looping mechanisms and tell it when it should use polymorphism and stuff, it’ll totally do all the work bro. You don’t need to know how to code, just the right sequence of keywords and commands so the AI can write all the code.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We will find out just how good AI is with coding in a few months when it replaces the SSA’s COBOL.
My guess? Catastrophic.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And instead of going back, they’ll say some kid deleted the old stuff after copying it into the new system.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Of course they will delete the old system entirely. Saving it would just be wasteful, and intelligent.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a coder, the majority of my job isn’t writing code. It’s translating the bullshit management says and the broken specs we’re given into what they both actually want, not what they said. There is never going to be an AI that fixes that
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There is never going to be an AI that fixes that
Don’t be so negative. Of course AI, if sufficiently trusted, could fix the existence of the human race and by extension the existence of bullshit management.
duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The idea of LLMs putting coders out of work at a large scale seems inherently self-defeating.
The LLMs needed to ingest a massive volume of code to get to their current level of proficiency. What will happen if they put all the coders out of work and Stack Overflow is down to just a small number of hobbyists? Will the LLMs just stop advancing?
I’m sure Sam Altman would say they are just about to have reasoning capabilities that will allow them to improve. But Sam Altman is not credible.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I can explain this chart: SO and AI both give me questionably useful example code, but AI isn’t as much of an asshole about it as the average SO user.
singletona@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Waiting for AI to take over CEO positions because they do nothing and you can replace them with a series of shell scripts.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a more viable solution than replacing most software engineers, honestly.
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 month ago
Lol, yeah. Keep paying us developers to write that philosopher stone. For writing general AI my rate is 100x because it’s magic you can’t explain.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Someone has pointed out it would be lot easier for AI to replace a CEO then a developer.
JackDark@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a developer, I literally laughed hard enough to choke a little.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I actually dare them to try. I’m really looking forward to the massive paychecks I’m going to get when companies are panicking to try to untangle all the absolute nonsense bullshit these AI companies are about to unleash into corporate codebases. The AI-slop bugfest will make the Y2K issue seem trivial. I’m so excited, the future looks very bright for human software developers.
My advice: Practice going over other people’s code with a fine-tooth comb looking for bad architecture, flaws and inefficiencies. You won’t always be right, you won’t find them all, but you’ll learn lots of skills you’ll need in the future. Whatever you do, don’t undersell yourselves, remember that your experience is valuable, and AI has no experience, it just has a huge library it can shotgun “solutions” out of. Half the time they don’t even compile.
JackDark@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My advice: Practice going over other people’s code with a fine-tooth comb looking for bad architecture, flaws and inefficiencies.
I agree. Funny story, I wasn’t allowed to do code reviews at my current job for about 2 years because they thought my comb was too fine. Suddenly software quality is something they are really valuing and they’re allowing me to do code reviews again. Funny, that.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 month ago
LOL, my friend no. Hahaha 🤡
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Listening to this guy talk shit is a waste of time
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I predict that this guy is a moron.
Oh shit, my prediction already came true!?
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The main issue I’ve encountered is with troubleshooting. Initially, working with cursor was smooth when dealing with a single file and script project. However, as I tried to extend it to handle dependencies like a typical project, the code generation began to spiral out of control, resembling a cancerous growth that keeps producing more and more code. This problem intensified when I started interacting with multiple libraries, making the situation even more chaotic. It must be extra directed to stay on track and even if it tends to always create extra.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We are all so fucked.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
AI won’t code everything by next year, blnot inn5 years either as it requires understanding context and actual reasoning which AI doesn’t have and won’t have for a long time to come, but the day that AI can code itself is the day that humanity is done for
FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I don’t give a shit. I code because it’s fun.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 1 month ago
Who is this guy? Some CEO ? Isn’t it more cost effective to replace him with ai?
immutable@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What’s weird is he’s the ceo of replit.
Replit’s product is a website where you can write a snippet of code and run it without having to install anything. An activity that human developers would do to test out something.
So if his prediction comes true, his product will lose all value.
scytale@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Maybe his expectation is that companies will buy his product because people will have to feed the AI-generated code into it to test it, instead of having humans manually review everything. Basically telling people to create a problem so he can sell his solution.
Tea@programming.dev 1 month ago
There is no AI products to replace CEOs, currently?
Corngood@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Literally any chatbot, probably
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 1 month ago
(You don’t need ai for that)
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even the simpler AI models can simulate ‘management’.
What we don’t have is AI’s that simulate your everyday asshole bosses.
What we don’t have either is AI’s that simulate fair, decent, smart, and empathic bosses.
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 month ago
Until AI can sexually assault their workers, can it really be said they’re qualified for the position?