Did AI just kill coding jobs?

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Man, I even talked to some experienced software developers and they said ChatGPT can even write 90% of their projects already. Even if it is like that now, imagine what will happen in a few years.

Maybe it will kill 99% of the entry level and medium level jobs in IT?
 
AI will definitely replace a lot of IT jobs, but i don't think in the near future we will see it completely take over and replace everyone and everything.. but maybe in the very far future it's going to, which is a bad thing imo
 
I think we're still a little far away from that happening but I would be worried if I was a programmer because it's crazy to think about how good it's going to be in the next 5 years
 
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.
 
Wait, so you can ask AI to code a bot?
 
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Man, I even talked to some experienced software developers and they said ChatGPT can even write 90% of their projects already. Even if it is like that now, imagine what will happen in a few years.

Maybe it will kill 99% of the entry level and medium level jobs in IT?

Unlikely.

They just got easily spooked.

The outputs you are receiving, even though they look complete, are not sometimes 100% correct.

AI is sometimes just trying to "fill in" the space.

That is why stackoverflow banned all ChatGPT replies, as people can't 100% relay on them.

Either way, it is scary.
 
Not even close. Being a developer isn't just about hammering out code mindlessly. It's being able to identify, understand, and solve problems. As well as understanding how the problem and potential solutions impact the system overall. ChatGPT is capable of solving some algorithm problems, but those aren't really things you encounter day-to-day in development work. It also has no idea about libraries and how they work together. I could go on, but I'll stop.

ChatGPT doesn't even scratch the surface of what an actual developer does. I wouldn't be worried in our lifetimes about any developer jobs being replaced by AI. Systems are too complex.
 
Unlikely.

They just got easily spooked.

The outputs you are receiving, even though they look complete, are not sometimes 100% correct.

AI is sometimes just trying to "fill in" the space.

That is why stackoverflow banned all ChatGPT replies, as people can't 100% relay on them.

Either way, it is scary.
Even if the bot you get is broken, wouldn't it be cheaper to "generate" it and then hire a developer to fix it than having someone code it from scratch?
 
If there is scenario where artificial intelligence need to be detected (as in the case of Google wanting to detect something in websites), then artificial intelligence is used to detect the usage of artificial intelligence, which means artificiality on both sides of the coin, is such user cases of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, in such scenarios, human Intelligence quite often, still outbeats artificial intelligence.
 
Even if the bot you get is broken, wouldn't it be cheaper to "generate" it and then hire a developer to fix it than having someone code it from scratch?
No, because as it stands, ChatGPT can't program a bot that is actually usable from a commercial standpoint. It's too simplistic. Sure, it could probably make a bot that can click on UI elements in a certain order, but that's also a task that will take any other dev no time at all. That's not the hard part of coding bots. :)
 
Even if the bot you get is broken, wouldn't it be cheaper to "generate" it and then hire a developer to fix it than having someone code it from scratch?

If you end up receiving the error, ChatGPT will find it, fix it, and explain the error.

It's great...

But i'm saying that sometimes it's not factual. And it can't be deep and complex as "human mind". Def. helpful though.
 
If you end up receiving the error, ChatGPT will find it, fix it, and explain the error.

It's great...

But i'm saying that sometimes it's not factual. And it can't be deep and complex as "human mind". Def. helpful though.
Interesting. I'll play with it and see if I can manage to create a Discord bot for the project I'm working on.
 
With millions of dollars at stake, no real business is going to trust AI to ship code without having a human look over it.
 
Man, I even talked to some experienced software developers and they said ChatGPT can even write 90% of their projects already. Even if it is like that now, imagine what will happen in a few years.

Maybe it will kill 99% of the entry level and medium level jobs in IT?

Not even REMOTELY close. lol.

A lot of the code its writing has issues, and a non-coder generating code will have no chance of seeing it.

Just to see how utterly shit it is :-

Create a python program to scrape a website I specify on the command line and search it to see if it's using a wordpress theme named "funky-theme". If it is then print a message saying "Funky theme is FOUND"

and it returns

Code:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import sys

def scrape_website(url):
  # Fetch the HTML content of the website
  response = requests.get(url)

  # Return the HTML content as a string
  return response.text

def search_theme(html):
  # Parse the HTML using BeautifulSoup
  soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

  # Search for the presence of the "funky-theme" theme
  if soup.find('funky-theme'):
    return True
  else:
    return False

def main():
  # Get the website URL from the command-line argument
  url = sys.argv[1]

  # Scrape the website
  html = scrape_website(url)

  # Search for the "funky-theme" theme
  if search_theme(html):
    print('Funky theme is FOUND')
  else:
    print('Funky theme not found')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()


What can you do with that? It's garbage.

It just searches for the text 'funky-theme'. Not if the site uses the wordpress theme 'funky-theme'.

At some point, in maybe 5 or 6 years we'll have more robust models that can build large scale software though.

We're just nowhere near that. All it can do is create a couple of functions and it makes mistakes.

In the future we'll have more advanced models fine tuned on user stories and design specifications. We'll be able to give them to the AI like we'd give them to a developer, then talk to it directly to make feature requests
 
Not even REMOTELY close. lol.

A lot of the code its writing has issues, and a non-coder generating code will have no chance of seeing it.

Just to see how utterly shit it is :-



and it returns

Code:
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import sys

def scrape_website(url):
  # Fetch the HTML content of the website
  response = requests.get(url)

  # Return the HTML content as a string
  return response.text

def search_theme(html):
  # Parse the HTML using BeautifulSoup
  soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

  # Search for the presence of the "funky-theme" theme
  if soup.find('funky-theme'):
    return True
  else:
    return False

def main():
  # Get the website URL from the command-line argument
  url = sys.argv[1]

  # Scrape the website
  html = scrape_website(url)

  # Search for the "funky-theme" theme
  if search_theme(html):
    print('Funky theme is FOUND')
  else:
    print('Funky theme not found')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()


What can you do with that? It's garbage.

It just searches for the text 'funky-theme'. Not if the site uses the wordpress theme 'funky-theme'.

At some point, in maybe 5 or 6 years we'll have more robust models that can build large scale software though.

We're just nowhere near that. All it can do is create a couple of functions and it makes mistakes.

In the future we'll have more advanced models fine tuned on user stories and design specifications. We'll be able to give them to the AI like we'd give them to a developer, then talk to it directly to make feature requests
Yeah stories are perfectly set up for AI, well, well written ones. But the problem is that the AI has no knowledge of how the systen is designed. I think 5-6 years is very optimistic for AI to be taking anything but the most rudimentary stories from developers.
 
Yeah stories are perfectly set up for AI, well, well written ones. But the problem is that the AI has no knowledge of how the systen is designed. I think 5-6 years is very optimistic for AI to be taking anything but the most rudimentary stories from developers.

Things are developing stupidly fast, and it's only going to get faster from here. In 15 years you won't recognize the world. It'll be like the difference between today and the 1800's
 
Things are developing stupidly fast, and it's only going to get faster from here. In 15 years you won't recognize the world. It'll be like the difference between today and the 1800's
You aren't wrong. Just as a developer working on multiple very complex systems, it's hard to see AI replacing my job any time soon. Until AI starts replacing web dev jobs, I'm not too worried about backend work and system design being replaced by AI. Though I would say there's def a non-zero chance I'll be eating crow in the unemployment line in 5-6 years. :P
 
Is AI able to control the decisions of a normally intelligent person ?
I am not talking about thoughts, I am talking about decisions and that also with reference to a normally intelligent person.
A normally intelligent person may have a variety of new & invigorating thoughts if encountering AI used in a product or service. But, before making a decision, a normally intelligent person, would process and analyze all those thoughts using his or her natural intelligence of his or her brain, before making any decisions which may be based on those thoughts.
Hence, natural intelligence still (as of now) has a huge "market share" in human decisions as compared to artificial intelligence, atleast in people who are (atleast) normally intelligent.
Note : If I take a decision which is based totally on my thoughts arising out of AI that I encountered in some product or service, WITHOUT processing and analysing those thoughts using my human intelligence (brain), then I will consider myself as below normally intelligent. Hence, once again I stress that what I have explained (as per me) refers to people who are (atleast) normally intelligent.
As long as artificial intelligence cannot totally take over control of the decision making abilities of people with (atleast) normal intelligence, till then, artificial intelligence (in my opinion) cannot replace or rather cannot be considered as better than human intelligence. We are not talking about thoughts here, we are talking about decisions here. And we are not talking about outcomes of decisions here, we are talking about the the ability of AI to take control over decisions made by people who have (atleast) normal intelligence.
 
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I literally used ChatGPT today while it was still online to help me with my uni assignment in development. I was amazed, this AI saved my ass.
 
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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