Did AI just kill coding jobs?

atooxi said:

Human beings think they're something special we got lucky by developping a concience and now we are making bot and machines that can do same thing as we do and maybe better

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Not necessarily better as of now. AI may sometimes or even perhaps often in some cases, for example, suggest that the fastest way to get from London to New York, is by cycling !!!
However, no doubt that in some or many user cases, AI can be helpful.

I’m gonna get my popcorn and watch ChatGPT fixing few bugs in my projects
The AI has the power to start and replace some jobs in the next year… but we have the oportunity to make some money with AI until it replace our jobs

We are not there yet

the more everyone uses it, ,the faster it will be able to do a lot more imo.
its AI and that means its also correcting itself as it goes along.

anybody seen terminator?

DeFiNFT1 said:

the more everyone uses it, ,the faster it will be able to do a lot more imo.
its AI and that means its also correcting itself as it goes along.

anybody seen terminator?

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Even if ChatGPT becomes really good with coding and can build complex project on its own. I'll be still coding, and lot of people will too.
The whole "Ai is gonna take my job" is because a lot of videos and articles about ChatGPT saying that it's so good that it's gonna end everyone's career in IT. But this isn't true. Same shit I heard when GitHub Autopilot was released or the funny Web 3.0

QWE333 said:

Definitely.
Today with AI for example you can write 5000 words article in high level.
Think how much workers can lose their jobs because of this and it's really small example.

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For simple blog posts? Maybe. Now, what about more in-depth, one-of-a-kind works, such as award-winning books? It's not even close.

I'd say it was child's play, but even children's stories outclass anything an AI could ever hope to achieve.


The day an AI can write as deeply as humans, we will become obsolete as a species.

To even begin to comprehend human nature, an AI must live, breathe, and suffer as homo sapiens do. It takes years - sometimes a lifetime - for a writer to progress from "decent" to "genius" status since writing requires a deep, genuine understanding of what life is all about. Take, for example, movies.

Think about the last time you saw a movie that had such an impact on your life; consider classics and what their characters expressed and experienced throughout the story - it's all about the human struggle called "life".

We don't have to go far to put that to the test: Disney had mastered the art of storytelling decades before the first artificial intelligence was even proposed. I'm yet to see an AI transform a children's lion story* into one of the most beautiful works of art ever created. A single line of dialogue would suffice it.

*Of course, I'm referring to Lion's King.

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AI, like the actors in such films, can be excellent at mimicking humans, but this does not imply that it will become one of them.

Much less winning an Oscar for it.

The davincii mode is extremely powerful it knows basically everything you just have to ask it

Illumi_96x said:

The day an AI can write as deeply as humans,

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AI can write as deeply as human. ChatGPT is incredible if you know how to use it properly, instead of considering it as SIRI or Google assistant try to follow up the conversation, you will know how deep it can be.

Plastic Bowl said:

but that's also a task that will take any other dev no time at all

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still developers are slower than ChatGPT

No. It's absolutely absurd to think AI can understand complex business problems.

I've worked in the AI industry for 10 years.

Nopes. The problem with AI is the fact that it can write bad code with confidence, and it doesn’t tell you that it did. If you are a company who depends on such code, best of luck surviving the market.

After reading the book "exponential", I became concerned about my job security (content writer) in the future. The book lays out how we are now living in the exponential age, where technology is advancing at a far faster rate than most people appreciate.

I'll be making moves in the next year to train in something AI will be unlikely to take over for a long time.

Looks like I still need a human.

Illumi_96x said:

For simple blog posts? Maybe. Now, what about more in-depth, one-of-a-kind works, such as award-winning books? It's not even close.

I'd say it was child's play, but even children's stories outclass anything an AI could ever hope to achieve.


The day an AI can write as deeply as humans, we will become obsolete as a species.

To even begin to comprehend human nature, an AI must live, breathe, and suffer as homo sapiens do. It takes years - sometimes a lifetime - for a writer to progress from "decent" to "genius" status since writing requires a deep, genuine understanding of what life is all about. Take, for example, movies.

Think about the last time you saw a movie that had such an impact on your life; consider classics and what their characters expressed and experienced throughout the story - it's all about the human struggle called "life".

We don't have to go far to put that to the test: Disney had mastered the art of storytelling decades before the first artificial intelligence was even proposed. I'm yet to see an AI transform a children's lion story* into one of the most beautiful works of art ever created. A single line of dialogue would suffice it.

*Of course, I'm referring to Lion's King.

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AI, like the actors in such films, can be excellent at mimicking humans, but this does not imply that it will become one of them.

Much less winning an Oscar for it.

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Those are my thoughts exactly. That is a very thoughtful answer.

Easy tasks yes, complex tasks no...at least not yet

DulalKisku said:

still developers are slower than ChatGPT

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Fast garbage is still garbage

If AI can take over someone's job, it means they have a relatively simple, procedural job that didn't demand much by way of cognitive resources in the first place.
IMO the most valuable skill in any job is the decision making ability and nuanced domain expertise the role requires one to have. Everything else (the 'grunt work') can and should be automated.
The AI models we're seeing now don't have decision making ability, or nuanced domain expertise (because domain expertise is largely the result of work experience - - you learn how different choices play out IRL, not 'in theory' - - and given the datasets the AI has learned from, all it knows is theory).
I'm surprised that actual developers are saying ChatGPT is a threat - - I'm not a seasoned coder by any yardstick but even I felt the code snippets generated by it were laughably bad. Assuming that the models will improve over time, they may generate 'cleaner' code with extensive fine-tuning, but the architectural and design decisions will have to still be taken by a human - - this is arguably the most important domain expertise that good coders have.
Regarding GPT being omniscient, it's really not, it's just able to sound very academic and confident about topics, but the information itself is often extremely general, surface level, not to mention 'safe' and politically correct. This is not something that "future versions" will iron out, because information isn't always objective - - for example, the interpretation of historical events changes over time, and there's never really any "final word" on the subject - - ideas and philosophies evolve, and this is done by humans, not AI, the AI can only act like an intelligent autocomplete and spit out the highest probability prediction after being trained on a dataset.
This doesn't mean AI is useless, of course. I do feel AI will replace a lot of the more 'pointless' work - - like writing articles for PBNs, but then again, PBN articles were never the pinnacle of human cultural output, so that's not much of a loss. Of course, if there's someone out there whose life's dream was to write articles like "Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Hire The Best Electrician In {insert city} In 2022" or to write skyscraper content about Pest Control - - I can understand why this person may now be distraught because they won't be able to do what they truly love for a living. Maybe they'll have to just be the next Hemingway or Dostoevsky instead.

This thread got popular as hell, heated.

Looks like egoistic humans will not accept this reality. But I guess it will become more talented than most of us soon, not soon but very soon. Even if it can fire 5 medium level coders and one high level coder does 5 people's job with this advanced assistant, it is still a big game changer. Only very big problem solvers will survive which is just 3-5% of the software world. We'll see.

AI can "paint" masterpieces in nanoseconds. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62788725
Nobody will feed the unemployed artist if he is not needed. The years spent in art school are almost worthless now.

AI may not be a good coder yet, but if it learns from its mistake it will get better.

People are right to worry about AI taking their jobs.

Mr. Burnham said:

AI can "paint" masterpieces in nanoseconds. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62788725
Nobody will feed the unemployed artist if he is not needed. The years spent in art school are almost worthless now.

AI may not be a good coder yet, but if it learns from its mistake it will get better.

People are right to worry about AI taking their jobs.

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TBH you don't need AI to make art that sells for millions, look at Damien Hirst's spot paintings:


This 'painting' sold for 19 million USD. Art has almost nothing to do with technical skill and everything to do with branding, marketing and being in tune with the zeitgeist. The years spent at art school are just as worthless now as they were a decade ago (ie completely worthless).