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serbuvlad ◴[] No.45054479[source]
I think the whole AI vs non. AI debate is a bit besides the point. Engineers are stuck in the old paradigm of "perfect" algorithms.

I think the image you post at the beginning basically sums it up for me: ChatGPT o3/5 Thinking can one-shot 75% of most reasonably sized tasks I give it without breaking a sweat, but struggles with tweaks to get it to 100%. So I make those tweaks myself and I have cut my code writing task in half or one third of the time.

ChatGPT also knows more idioms and useful libraries than I do so I generally end up with cleaner code this way.

Ferrari's are still hand assembled but Ford's assembly line and machines help save up human labor even if the quality of a mass-produced item is less than a hand-crafted one. But if everything was hand-crafted, we would have no computers at all to program.

Programming and writing will become niche and humans will still be used where a quality higher than what AI can produce is needed. But most code will be done by minotaur human-ai teams, where the human has a minimal but necessary contribution to keep the AI on track... I mean, it already is.

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1. Davidzheng ◴[] No.45054948[source]
Why are you assuming the cases where humans can code better than AI still exists after three years say -- I think in some industries today artisanal products are also not higher quality than machine made ones.
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2. BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[] No.45055020[source]
Progress under current paradigms has gotten much slower
3. Zanfa ◴[] No.45055177[source]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and if there's one thing we've learned is that progress in AI is not linear nor predictable. We've been a few years away from fully self-driving cars for a really long time now.
4. dns_snek ◴[] No.45062480[source]
Because we're not even close to that happening. However I've observed a sort of cognitive decline in a few formerly experienced and extremely knowledgeable developers whom I used to respect. They happen to be the most vocal supporters of LLMs now and sometimes our discussions get so ridiculous I have to practically beg them to put the LLM down and just think about what they're saying for just 5 seconds. I think they're about a year away from believing that the sky is green if the AI says so.

So maybe LLMs will win on a technicality by making us more stupid as a species.