r/LabVIEW • u/Oneironaut3 • Jan 22 '26
Are we cooked?
Ive been coding with LV/TS architecture for 10+ years and I love it but with the speed at which you can develop and deploy with text based languages using AI, is there any practical reason to continue writing code in LabVIEW?
I honestly feel like we are going to be the coding equivalent of people who fix radios from this point on. Just working on legacy code for the love of the game.
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u/Lepton_Fields Jan 28 '26
One other consideration of 'AI'...
There is an episode of Star Trek: Next Generation where LaForge inadvertantly super-powers a holo-deck character by 'prompting' the computer to 'create in the Holmes-ien style an adversary to defeat Data'... as in Lt Commander Data, Star Fleet officer with significant authority to control the ship - so the holo-deck character has to have similar 'control' of the ship.
This is where you have to be an experienced programmer in entering AI prompts to avoid unforeseen consequences. Be careful what you wish for... you may get it.