Comment by hatefulmoron
13 days ago
> Just because AI is able to translate English to code doesn't mean the 100s of decisions that need to be made go away. Someone still needs to write very detailed instructions even if they are in English and it sure isn't going to be the people sitting in meetings all day.
What makes you think it will be you? The machines seem increasingly capable of converting English into different English, and if we take it as a given that they can convert English into code.. what are you there for? The people sitting in meetings might as well talk to the machine, to the extent they're willing to talk to you.
To be clear, the professional "meeting participants" are as much on the chopping block as we are, although that's not commonly pointed out.
I mean sure, once AI can write perfect code, infer specifications from vague and conflicting instructions and has full access to all siloed information developers will no longer be needed. And once we've perfected fusion energy all our energy issues will be solved.
But at that point AI writing code will be the least impressive thing it can do.
I don't really understand what you're implying here. It doesn't need to be perfect, it only needs to be as good as we are. I mean, you don't write perfect code. You don't perfectly infer requirements either. It takes time and conversation.