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67 points growbell_social | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.204s | source

Amidst the nascent concerns of AI replacing software engineers, it seems a proxy for that might be the amount of code written at OpenAI by the various models they have.

If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend. I personally don't view it as a threat, but some people (non engineers?) obviously do.

I'd be curious if any OpenAI engineers can share a rough estimate of their day to day composition of human generated code vs AI generated.

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add-sub-mul-div ◴[] No.44554707[source]
> If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend.

There are two strong forces at play. Employees generally want to put in the least amount of effort possible and go home at 5. Employers want to save money and pay for fewer employees. AI creates a strong symbiosis here and both sides are focused on a short term win.

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1. oulu2006 ◴[] No.44555643[source]
not just employees, founders as well :) as a serial founder, I find AI exciting because after my 3rd company, thinking of my 4th was quite exhausting but AI has re-invigorated by ambition to start another company.