Comment by bambax

I'm very curious about how this "AI writing code" thing is going to turn out.

I have not tested AI myself for producing code, but I toy a little (ok, more than a little) with various GPT instances to write prose. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's poor, but:

1/ It never gets anywhere: there is never any resolution

2/ Sometimes it just loops, takes up a clue from itself and produces the same set of words indefinitely.

What I do is generate, survey, and then edit. It's a great tool to get new ideas. But how could this work for code that's supposed to accomplish something?

Code is famously much harder to read than to write; that's why people always prefer rewriting than refactoring. With code-generating AI, all that's left for humans to do is the reading, understanding, and monitoring parts.

It's a difficult job, and if done by incompetent youngsters, I think pretty dangerous too.