Comment by kevinsync

AI coding is a sort-of thing, but will also never become a 'thing'.

Maybe in the giant software houses, sure, generating code around constrained, prescribed requirements prepared by moneyed teams incentivized to feed the machine dense, specific, meticulously-prepared requirements is/will be a thing, but I have such a hard time envisioning a world where a guy who starts a regional brewery and a couple restaurants, who has ever-shifting day-to-day challenges with personnel + product segmentation, who has immediate, unexpected business requirements (not pure TECH requirements, mind you), who needs somebody they can trust to offer technical insight and guidance without wasting their time with how the sausage is made, I just struggle to imagine that that dude will fire his 'guy' and then just sit down and magically craft a perfect prompt or unleash an all-knowing AGI who can navigate the irrational nuances of humans who have money and are desperate to spend.

As a technologist, I'm literally boiling over with thoughts about AI / AGI, how to achieve it, etc. That said, as a human, I would be a fool to ignore the fact that PEOPLE can't even understand each other's intent or message with any accuracy. Get a guy from the Everglades and a guy from Mauritania together and you better believe there will be misunderstandings. Now imagine any non-SV non-elite-American and an LLM...

There's just no way that it'll do what you want unless you can ask it to do EXACTLY what you want, in the parlance of the predominant culture / colloquialisms that the model was trained on.

Who knows with AGI, but it doesn't exist, so I guess we'll cross that bridge when it appears. In the meantime, I promise you, all anybody wants is somebody they're comfortable with, who they can trust to execute even a shadow of what they themselves are on the hook for delivering to whomever they're beholden to.

AI can't make a client feel good about you. You aren't even "you" if you're an AI -- you're just a tool. Somebody who hires you to build a house doesn't believe in the hammer, they believe in the person wielding the hammer. They believe in the vision of what they will eventually receive. You have to have kind eyes and nuance and a soul to deliver that kind of value, and frankly, a computer program that can play on your emotions and manipulate you is not a computer program that you can trust -- it's just another human -- and courts exist because humans can't trust each other!

Who on Earth wants that as their (automated, unpredictable) hired help??