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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements (stackoverflow.blog)
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

But those people don't need to be programmers.

The reality is, that most software is complex, but trivial. It's s bunch of requirements, but there's no magic behind it. An AI that can turn a written text containing the requirements into a decently running program will replace tons of developers.

And since a future AI, that's actually trained to do software, won't have problem juggling 300 requirements at once (like humans have), it's relatively easy to trust the result.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    it's relatively easy to trust the result.

    .. just as easy as taking the responsibility for it if it fails?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Do human programmers not fail?

    I don't want to hype AI, but you're basically comparing a high school graduate AI (lots of general knowledge, no specialization) with a perfect senior dev. But that's not really fair.

    As soon as an AI works better than the average developer in a given area, it will outperform them. Simple as that.

    Of course it will make errors, but the question is, are the extra errors compared to a human worth the savings?

    Just a quick example: let's say you'd need 10 devs of 100k a year and they produce errors worth 200k a year. That means costs of 1.2million a years.

    If an AI costs 100k in licenses, replaces 5 devs and only adds, say 200k in errors, you're still at only 1 million a year.

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