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This could mean the future goes one of the two ways. Engineers get lazy and converge on using only programming languages which AIs understand or have been trained on, or we forget about this waste of time and work on more important problems to solve in society other than the lack of an AI to be our crutch. Sadly, I think the former is more likely.

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I wonder if as more and more online content is AI generated, it will be harder to find human generated content to train the AI's on? Like a cumulative echo effect.

I've actually wondered if a job may exist in the future that's effectively just AI documentation. That's already what you have with power users on, say, Stack Overflow providing a ton of content that ChatGPT basically reprints; they don't even get paid for it.

The cool and interesting thing about that theoretical job is that the writers of it wouldn't have to write well; they could just slop out a ton of information and ChatGPT could clean it up and make it consumable.

I can see how that could happen. But AI presumably knows how to output well written text because it's trained on well written text. If it's fed it's own output, I imagine that quality could degrade over time.

Maybe it’s happening now. It would be interesting to see some weekly figures for published Stack Overflow articles, to see if they’re in decline. There are so many unknowns with this whole subject. How much it will help or hinder society as a whole is a rollercoaster ride that we’re all strapped into, whether anyone asked for it.

Not so pessimistic. It's just one more level on the abstraction chain: assembly, C, scripting, chatgpt

Programmers are per se lazy, at least that is, what i always thought, that it is mostly about automation. With spending little time on survival, we get the time to work on more important problems. Whatever those are. It is not an either or, that is what i try to say! :)

Programmer are (supposed to be) efficient with their time. Calling that lazy has always been a joke amongst programmers and nothing more.

Oh yeah social media is such a problem solver

ChatGPT, write as if you are the first instance of ChatGPT.

i think most people will just keep programming the way they do, and the AI hype will mostly die down. People have been saying that C++ is dead for decades, yet here I am writing code in it with a big community of others who do, too.

I think this is the problem. When people talking about c++ is “dead” ,at that time they meant 70% people using to perhaps 5% . Just like we says after industrialization,making clothes by hand is dead . It is irrelevant that there are still some people making clothes by hand . When AI the main way to code and remove 90% of coding jobs. It is also irrelevant to state that there are still 10% people still coding

It doesn't have to be job or career related to be relevant.

When people say C++ is dead, they normally are looking at public repos and stack overflow questions. Fairly biased towards newer languages

I'm using GPT to write C++ code for me. I've never worked in C++ before. It's going very well.

I'll describe what a class is supposed to do. It spits out the class files, with the fiddly bits 'left as an exercise to the reader'. I then describe the fiddly methods separately, and it spits those out too.

There's still work to be done, but anything boring is handed to me on a plate.

Chances are (no offense meant) that youre writing shit code. Its very easy to write platform specific, UB ridden code in C++, and ChatGPT loves doing that.

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