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English is a Terrible Programming Language—And other reasons AI won't displace programmers

TL;DR It doesn't matter that ChatGPT can generate boilerplate that almost works, and it doesn't matter that, feasibly, a hypothetical model in the (near) future could write code that reliably works and might be a little bit more interesting than boilerplate. The concern that deep learning AIs could replace programmers...

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English is a Terrible Programming Language—And other reasons AI won't displace programmers

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TL;DR It doesn't matter that ChatGPT can generate boilerplate that almost works, and it doesn't matter that, feasibly, a hypothetical model in the (near) future could write code that reliably works and might be a little bit more interesting than boilerplate. The concern that deep learning AIs could replace programmers is based on a misunderstanding of what a programmer's job actually is.

All this talk I’m seeing about AI being close to replacing programmers indicates there’s a significant gap between what people think programming is like and what programming is actually like. I get the sense that most people who don’t work in tech think that programming is like sitting down in front... (read 2311 more words →)

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