I mean not really surprising. The future programming paradigm is writing high level descriptions of stuff, letting the generative AI write the code for you, and then finetuning it.
Computer: I understand. OpenAI requires you to provide a $10,000 advance on this task, and $10,000 more when it's ready. Do you agree?
User: Compared to the money I will make, this is peanuts. I agree.
Computer: Alright, your account was charged. I am also legally required to notify Amazon Hive of every group of users that try to clone their store each day. Don't worry, their legal subAI only sues 0.3% of the time. Have a good afternoon!
Seems inefficient. Shouldn't the AI just be generating machine code for the computer to run?
Its much easier in the short term to generate larger snippets of Python code based on prompts and let the programmer fine tune it
Is it the act of writing code or is it creating things? I often wonder this when the threads discussing raw typing speed come up, or the "extra typing" involved in optional curly braces. Even today, without LLMs, only 20% or less of my work is writing actual code. Requirements/research, designing, optimizing, testing, etc make up the lion's share.
So you take out that 20%, I'll be more productive, but my work doesn't change.
So yeah, bleak.