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anlumo t1_j681lo3 wrote

Reply to comment by HaggisLad in OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete by hockeyfan33333

If it can be used by a senior dev to produce code quickly, it could be a big win.

Also, the dev role would change to be more of a requirements analyst. Devs right now have to carry many hats, cutting down on that is also a big plus.

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HaggisLad t1_j68394j wrote

No such thing as a senior Dev once nobody is coming through the pipeline

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anlumo t1_j683ix3 wrote

Yeah, that's one of the things I've been mulling over.

However, in a way, this discussion isn't new. Developers these days in general don't start with writing assembly any more (which I actually did when I was 15) and so don't really understand how a CPU works. That has caused some of the same arguments. But has it become a problem really?

These days, developers start at a higher level of thinking about writing programs and go from there. AI code generators just raise that level even higher.

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rastilin t1_j68hl93 wrote

To be honest, it would be really cool to have something like a compiler that can understand your code well enough to generate optimized assembly instead of interpreted javascript.

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