Not everyone that runs is an avid runner.
But I do feel like the analogies aren’t that great. Coding in notepad instead of an IDE is dumb because IDEs work and don’t really have any downsides. AI mostly seems to produce slop that barely works without a ton of cajoling.
modern C++ facilities do make a difference to prevalence of bugs.
This is true, but just saying “write modern C++!” doesn’t actually work in practice. First, there are a ton of footguns that even best-practice C++ doesn’t avoid. Using std::shared_ptr? Great, you’re probably going to avoid memory leaks. Null pointer dereference? Not so much. What’s the modern C++ way to avoid integer overflow?
Second, it’s pretty much impossible to completely avoid raw pointers etc. even if you’re trying, and good luck getting your colleagues to actually try. I can’t even get mine to write proper commit messages. You need a machine forcing them to do it properly. Something they can’t opt out of (or at least where opting out isn’t the easy lazy option).
So yeah it’s better to use modern C++ and it is an improvement, but not enough the change the conclusion that you should just use Rust instead.
Damn that’s pretty good! (Outside the US I mean.)
Presumably this would be a bit higher actually since it’s contract work, not full time.
I wouldn’t expect the UI/UX to magically improve, in the same way that e.g. Audacity’s is, or Blender’s did back in the day.
LibreOffice is ancient and enormous. It would take a decent sized team several years to overhaul its UX.
I think it’s both true that you can’t really write an entire app with just AI… At least not easily.
But also I don’t buy that AI doesn’t make me more productive. I’m not allowed to use it on my actual code but I have used it several times to generate one-off scripts and visualisations and for those it can easily save hours. They aren’t software I need to edit myself though.
Yeah obviously. Whenever a company says “we can’t get enough X workers” they implicitly mean “at the price we want to pay”.
But that doesn’t mean they were wrong. Programming is still an amazingly well paying and low stress career. Being replaced by AI is a little worrying, but I think by the time AI is good enough to really replace programmers, it will also be able to replace most white collar jobs - HR, finance, etc. - and society will have bigger problems.
Yeah I know, but if you really mean that analogy then the conclusion is that the normal thing for 99% of programmers to do should be to use AI. In the same way that 99% of people do not get around by running.
I don’t agree with that yet - so far I’ve found AI to be a very fast but mediocre programmer. Kind of like giving a beginner access to all the documentation and a time machine. Sometimes that’s exactly what you want. But definitely not most of the time.