I don’t understand why tech companies are investing so much in AI. Are there any industries that show real promise in terms of revenue or power?
From my perspective it all just seems a bit “kind of useful”, not justifying the expense.
I don’t understand why tech companies are investing so much in AI. Are there any industries that show real promise in terms of revenue or power?
From my perspective it all just seems a bit “kind of useful”, not justifying the expense.
AI reliance makes worse programmers. AI makes people dumber and less skilled.
There’s certainly an adjustment period - I’m still learning how to use AI effectively and so is the industry as a whole. The technology is so new and the state of the art is evolving so quickly that there are no established best practices yet.
However, I think that in the long term, assuming human programmers remain relevant at all, we’ll adapt like we did to the development of high-level programming languages. That paradigm shift happened before I was born so I can’t speak from experience, but my impression is that the meaning of being a programmer changed.
Modern programmers are less skilled in some ways, in the sense that most can’t write assembly code, but they also have new skills for working with high level languages that make them significantly more productive overall.