This is a bad take. Even with the primitive LLM technology we have now, incredible things are happening. A week ago, a friend of mine who knows nothing about swift or programming Mac UIs got ChatGPT to write a Swift GUI program for him.
1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

Mar 4, 2023 · 1:05 PM UTC

He’s not completely naïve, he can write short programs in python, and he had to figure out how to debug the thing, but there is no way he could’ve created the thing on his own.
Once we have substantially more sophisticated AIs, which is a matter of time, it will be no different than asking a human engineer to do something on your behalf.
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The problem isn't whether it works or not. The problem is getting permission to upload or download code where the copyright is uncertain.
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Just saw this on Twitter a few minutes after seeing this tweet… your friend isn’t alone, there’s empirical data backing it up.
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All these waves had their winners and lowering of barrier to entry too. And overpromisers bumping into Tesler's law. It's whoever you pay attention to, I guess.
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Yeah, despite all of our attempts to make high level languages, we still need to think about algorithms, data structures and serialization formats way too much in every PL (including Haskell, python, you name it friendly language)
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For decades it didn't happen so it can't happen now! That was true about flying, nuclear energy, rockets, transistors, electric vehicles.... The list goes on. If I was wrong you'd see these things impacting everyday life and clearly we don't. Things can never change!