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amranu t1_ixyuyr0 wrote

Reply to comment by dasnihil in Google Has a Secret Project That Is Using AI to Write and Fix Code by nick7566

GPT-3 is a solid 2 years old, current LLM are significantly better at improving code. Software engineering is going to be small business only in the future, if at all once these are made widely available. Start learning to craft prompts.

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_gr4m_ t1_ixzctmy wrote

Needing to have to carefully craft prompts will be replaced by ai almost immediatly. I don’t understand how people are thinking that coding will be obsolete but prompting not.

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amranu t1_ixzd3fd wrote

Yes and no. Crafting prompts will still be useful for creating your own stuff with AI. But certainly you can use AI to craft prompts for you as necessary.

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gantork t1_ixzhmhp wrote

I doubt it. Prompts are a very primitive way of communicating, at some point you will be able to have natural human level conversations with AIs instead of prompts.

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amranu t1_ixzjzpz wrote

> at some point you will be able to have natural human level conversations with AIs instead of prompts.

You already can, but such conversations are also prompts.

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gantork t1_ixzn2oo wrote

I guess you can define that as prompts, but I mean that there will be no such thing as prompt engineering/crafting, you'll just talk to it the same way you talk to an artist when commissioning something in the case of generative AIs, for example.

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dasnihil t1_ixzitn8 wrote

that's what i meant by human biases and ambiguities, and that spans multiple cultures and languages and human history. we just have to train it better, the data sets seem more primitive than the algorithms.

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Artanthos t1_iy1d9hr wrote

Natural human communication is horribly imprecise when designing anything.

Blueprints, flowcharts, artist renditions, etc. are all tools for telling the builders what to build and how it should look.

Autonomous coding will replace the builders.

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Altruistic_Rate6053 t1_iy5ftvn wrote

What if we get to a level where AI can sense how you feel and know what you want intuitively without much prompting ? Kinda like the opposite of a “tricky genie” that gives you what you technically want but still leaves you unsatisfied

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Artanthos t1_iy1b35l wrote

You still have to precisely explain what you want done.

Higher level engineers tell coders what to code, but don’t write much code themselves.

Automation will replace most of the coders, but it won’t replace the people telling them what to build.

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dasnihil t1_ixyvduq wrote

I've already figured some quirks since I've been asking for c#/sql stuff. even azure pipeline yamls and some basic ansible scripts. plus i play with a lot of image generation tools. prompt skills is an intuition that will be taught in schools. we're just a bit early. eventually when the ai embraces human biases and ambiguities, we won't have to learn much about prompts.

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