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Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Let's assume this is true, just for discussion's sake. Who's going to be writing the prompts to get the code then? Surely someone who can understand the requirements, make sure the code functions, and then test it afterwards. That's a developer.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think that's the point? They're saying that those coders will turn into prompt engineers. They didn't say they wouldn't have a job, just that they wouldn't be "coding".

    Which I don't believe for a minute. I could see it eventually, but it's not "2 years" away by any stretch of the imagination.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Possibly. But... Here's the thing. I've dealt with "business rules" engines before at a job. I used a few different ones. The idea is always to make coding simpler so non technical people can do it. Unless you couldn't tell from context, I'm a software engineer lol. I was the one writing and troubleshooting those tools. And it was harder than if it was just in a "normal" language like Java or whatever.

    I have a soft spot for this area and there's a non zero chance this comment makes me obsess over them again for a bit lol. But the point I'm making is that "normal" coding was always better and more useful.

    It's not a perfect comparison because LLMs output "real" code and not code that is "Scratch-like", but I just don't see it happening.

    I could see using LLMs exclusively over search engines (as a first place to look that is) in 2 years. But we'll see.

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