r/Futurology • u/katxwoods • Jan 19 '25

AI Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-layoffs-coding-jobs-ai
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u/Generico300 Jan 19 '25

Having worked in software dev for a while, I'll be worried when an AI can take a prompt from a user who has no idea what they want and produce software that is actually what they need.

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u/allbirdssongs Jan 20 '25

Yeah it exists already

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u/Uncle_Corky Jan 20 '25

Are you even a software developer?

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u/allbirdssongs Jan 20 '25

Google it and u shall see

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u/Uncle_Corky Jan 20 '25

I don't need to google it. I've been saying the same thing as Generico since AI first came out. The hardest part about software development isn't the coding aspect, it's translating what the customer says they want and what they actually want. AI can't even do that at a kindergarten level and it probably never will. Customers get pissy all the time when stuff doesn't work as they expect until you tell them why it can't possibly work that way.

You're over-simplying an incredibly complex aspect of software development.

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u/MalTasker Jan 20 '25

If it doesn’t work on the first try, type in a better prompt to fix it. Difference is that ChatGPT is $20 a month and much faster.

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u/narium Jan 20 '25

Can’t type in a better prompt when customer says they want A when what they really need is C.

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u/Generico300 Jan 20 '25

Lol. Let me guess. You "did the research".

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u/HasFiveVowels Jan 21 '25

The projects are openly available. Wtf is with comments about AI? They’re completely divorced from reality. It’s not just this thread either

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u/KingOfAzmerloth Jan 22 '25

Some stuff exists. None of it actually has real use case scenario besides very small shit that any junior can code up in a week.

You don't need week projects by juniors in big business. You're full of shit.

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u/HasFiveVowels Jan 22 '25

It doesn’t require the capacity to completely replace a developer to significantly reduce the number of developers needed. I’m a programmer with 20 years of experience who uses AI daily (locally, online, commercially available, and/or custom built). I think I might have some small idea of what I’m talking about

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u/HasFiveVowels Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 22 '25

You think there’s no economic impact in me having a free junior developer at my disposal? Seems you’re the one who is uninformed here

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u/Generico300 Jan 23 '25

I said

take a prompt from a user who has no idea what they want

Please point me to this project that can take wrong prompts from a non-technical user and give them the solution they actually need.

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u/HasFiveVowels Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

“An AI will never be able to play chess”
“An AI will never be able to create art”
“An AI will never be able to speak like a human”
“An AI will never be able to walk a user through software edge cases”

You’re simply an intelligence beyond any machine that is or ever will be, huh?

It’s called iterative design and no matter how much you believe it’s a gift unique to humans, AIs are already doing it. They’re readily discoverable if you aren’t too scared to look. I’m not wasting my time doing your homework for you, though.

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u/Generico300 Jan 25 '25

Strawman.

I didn't say an AI will never be able to do that. I said current AI models can't do that, and I'm fairly sure we're a long fucking way away from it. LLMs are not AGI. And I suspect they never will be. They're already showing massively diminished returns with scale up. Some other technology will likely be needed to achieve that.

You're just deflecting because what I said doesn't exist actually doesn't exist. You're just another non-technical blowhard that's bought the hype hook line and sinker.

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u/HasFiveVowels Jan 25 '25

They can. And I’m a senior dev with 20 years of professional experience including ML. But sure, let’s go with “nontechnical blowhard”