OT: Re: Oh d-ai-ry d-ai-ry me

On 03/06/2025 17:06, Ar Rakin wrote:

This is the reason why I tell people who write code that AI/LLMs can't ever replace them like this.  AI tools can only be a tool that you use. To write code, you'd still need to know something by yourself at the end of the day.

As the sage said, never is a very long time.
I started my career writing assembler. Nobody uses it any more for system work - it's much easier and cheaper to use a higher level language. Those skills I learned back then will never be performed by an API. But nor are they performed by humans any more (at least on that obsolete ISA!)
In recent years I used C++. I understand a lot of code now is written in languages like Python. You could regard them merely as a detailed spec for the processes you need the computer to carry out.
Get that spec right, and the computer behaves. Perhaps one day the AI will be able to read a spec in English - but it will probably have to be lawyer's English to avoid ambiguities.
Or maybe we'll have an AI that is truly intelligent...
Andy
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Do not listen to rumour, but, if you do, do not believe it.
Ghandi.