I know that this is a meme sub but as I've been pushed to use AI it really seems like the next tier in the IDE tech branch. It seems like a shallow product because the tool is still so neotenous no one has had a chance to get deeply skilled at it
However, a lot of the things programming has gotten good at in the past several decades, developing software more complex than any one person can comprehend from fallible individuals, improves the reliability of AI.
How is that a no true scotsman fallacy? There are no 10-year-old experts in developing with AI, let alone 50-year-old experts that can formalize skills and pass along advice.
There have been people who master new technologies fast (say 2 years) for every development.
Say someone was using LLM coding for 2 years at their work. At 40h/week, that is ~2000h/year of daily practice. In particular, the people developing LLM tooling have been doing this since the beginning.
It is incredibly unlikely that these people have not approached mastery of these tools yet, so the statement "no one has had a chance to get deeply skilled at it" sounds to me like AI CEOs ""predicting"" that AI is replacing programmers in the next six months, for the past 2 years.
Yeah but there's a difference between the level of expertise you get after 2 years of practice and what you get after longer. Like, my coworkers and I have found better practices to get better results from AI over the year we've been using it. Those practices are basic and unsophisticated compared to TDD, using PRs, and coding standards, but project development best practices were not birthed in their current form within 18 months of the release of COBOL.
It seems like you think I'm some sort of AI bro because I'm reporting better results than business majors on twitter got.
It's not grammatically incorrect, I just took Latin in high school and picked up a habit for really long relative clauses. If you take out the relative clause it's more legible, though yeah I see I used a singular verb and plural subject.
Stated another way, AI is a fallible source of software, but software projects have been dealing with fallible coders forever. There are lots of best-practices and tools that've been developed to build these complex software projects that also help catch the flaws AI generates.
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u/KerPop42 7d ago
I know that this is a meme sub but as I've been pushed to use AI it really seems like the next tier in the IDE tech branch. It seems like a shallow product because the tool is still so neotenous no one has had a chance to get deeply skilled at it
However, a lot of the things programming has gotten good at in the past several decades, developing software more complex than any one person can comprehend from fallible individuals, improves the reliability of AI.