Flutterby™! : Moving debugging from 90% of programming to 100% of it

Moving debugging from 90% of programming to 100% of it

2024-06-03 18:39:51.561738+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

How does AI impact my job as a programmer:

Remember; already, the overwhelming majority of our time in the programming tools goes into tasks that require the investigative skill set rather than the building skill set. Large language models shift even more of that time into investigation, because the moment the team gets a chance to build, they turn around and ask ChatGPT (or Copilot, or Devin, or Gemini) to do it. When we learn that we need to integrate with Google Cloud Storage, or spaCy, or SQS Queue, or Firebase? Same thing: turn around and ask the LLM to draft the integration.

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#Comment Re: Moving debugging from 90% of programming to 100% of it made: 2024-06-03 22:21:23.454529+02 by: spc476

That's my fear with AI and programming---that management would have us peons debug AI written code, instead of having the AI debug human written code.

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