• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    However, programmers will still be needed to guide AI toward productive solutions

    So it would still be safe, they’d just be doing different work from what they do now. Same as how other advances in tech stacks made it so we do things differently now than 30 years ago.

    People are very adaptable

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Indeed. Do people still use emacs to code, for example?

      Technologies evolve. People coding today in COBOL or Fortran are few and far between (but very well compensated).

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      1 year ago

      Yes, that’s the key. I haven’t written assembly code since the 1990s, I use higher-level abstractions to get to the goal more quickly now. AI-generated code is just yet another layer of abstraction away from machine language.