Comment by archagon
8 hours ago
AI is not an abstraction, so any programmer who thinks they’re “moving up the stack” is fundamentally mistaken.
8 hours ago
AI is not an abstraction, so any programmer who thinks they’re “moving up the stack” is fundamentally mistaken.
Language is a tool for abstraction, and AI is just an imperfect tool for working with language.
In the sense that "down the stack" is well-captured by existing language, AI is absolutely moving programmers up the stack. I can describe my goals using high-level abstractions, and the low-level implementation is somewhat constrained by that.
How well constrained it is depends on how well I described the problem and the quality of the model - much like how good human-written code is depends on how clearly the authors were thinking when they designed the structure.
AI is an abstraction in the same way throwing a task to a junior engineer is
I think you mean "shouldn't be", because I see many using as if it is.