Comment by code_runner
6 days ago
I’m also surprised at the progress but don’t quite share the “AI is doing a good job” perspective.
It’s fine. Some things it’s awful at. The more you know about what you’re asking for the worse the result in my opinion.
That said a lot of my complaints are out of date apis being referenced and other little nuisances. If ai is writing the code, why did we even need an ergonomic api update in the first place. Maybe apis stabilize and ai just goes nuts.
LLMs are doing a great job at generating syntactically correct output related to the prompt or task at hand. The semantics, hierarchy, architecture, abstraction, security, and maintainability of a code base is not being handled by LLMs generating code.
So far, the syntax has gotten better in LLMs. More tooling allows for validation of the syntax even more, but all those other things are still missing.
I feel like my job is still safe: but that of less experienced developers is in jeopardy. We will see what the future brings.