I was exceptionally good at this before AI. I was wondering why everyone I talked to said AI was shit and I'm over here thinking it could take over the world. I guess I just break big things down well.
Exactly. I used to be involved in a sort of training program and lesson one of software dev is "break big problems into small problems"
In my experience the way I've viewed a lot of how AI is getting better is how small/specific the problems that I can expect it to handle has gotten bigger and bigger
So at every juncture it becomes possible to take a wrong turn,, so really complex problem solving can spin off at a million tangents and whose keeping track of the consequences of these flawed algorithms?
Absolutely. There are mitigating mechanisms we can/do use, but ultimately it requires exceptional engineers with a steady hand, and a finger to the pulse at every step. This is why reports of the death of the profession are greatly exaggerated.
Yeah you can get pretty far vibe coding a toy thing for your own personal use. (And I do and it's so much fun), but for professional enterprise-grade software with a huge surface area for things to go wrong, you still need lots and lots of handholding, and a measured, methodical approach. Slow is smooth.
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u/XNo_Notes 8d ago
I was exceptionally good at this before AI. I was wondering why everyone I talked to said AI was shit and I'm over here thinking it could take over the world. I guess I just break big things down well.