ProgrammersVsAI

Context: ComputerAidedProgramming

A slightly comical tweet stream I wrote here https://mobile.twitter.com/interstar/status/1581981000711966722

You see THIS is why you should never write documentation.

Artists are fucked by AI because there's a huge meta-database mapping text descriptions to pictures.

But programmers are smart. We've resisted the siren calls of documentation and literate programming ...so there's a relatively impoverished database of plain text descriptions to viable code out there. And jobs are safe.

GithubCopilot is clever, but it's still writing unnecessary snippets of boilerplate that should have been abstracted away from decades ago.

There's no reason AI couldn't learn to translate English descriptions to full applications. Except we don't have good English descriptions of the codebases we have.

And I don't see that situation changing soon.

Boy was I wrong about this. In 2023 and beyond I use ChatGPT to help me program all the time.