Comment by CuriouslyC
3 years ago
They will, because you need to know to prompt for (as an example) "a real-time data-tracking and reporting application backed by a column database with logical replication fed by a task queue, having an isomorphic client cached across multiple regions via a CDN."
Without the engineering know-how, your "write me an app that displays data from this source in a dashboard" prompt might work, but it won't be robust and when it doesn't work you won't be able to figure out why.
Yeah, forget responding to prompts, I want to see A”I” respond to pages to troubleshoot its prompt-generated software.
“The machine stops” will seem optimistic in hindsight!
For those who haven't read E. M. Forster's fantastic short story, it's here: https://archive.org/details/e.-m.-forster-the-machine-stops_...