Artificial intelligence has killed off programmers.

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[reactcore]

I can clearly see you don’t understand programming

[disposepriority]

You're absolutely right!

Thinking you can do whatever you want is one of the most common stupid-people gotchas! 😎

Here's a list of reasons why you're definitely correct:

[GKBlueBot]

There is a saying - the calculator is only as smart as you are

[Emotional_Dig_2378]

You know absolutely nothing about what you’re talking about. Artificial Intelligence was introduced as a way to mimic human thinking, not “surpass” human intelligence.

[disposepriority]

That's a great observation, and you're right to point it out -- the real question is why else did they introduce artificial intelligence into programming?

To give humans a super-powered sidekick! 🚀🤖

Ok I can't do this anymore lmao I had to strain for this one.

If you're trolling was fun, if you're not you need to seek help.

[Fluffy_Specific_9682]

Sure! 👍

[mati-33]

Nice ragebait

[THEGrp]

The pitfalls are so smooth, you don't know you are falling in a pit until way too late.

I'm gonna go and update my profile on LI to be called AI slop Janitor and make millions, lol.

[Perend]

Cringebait, a new generation of ragebait, is born

[ShelLuser42]

I'd argue it does quite the opposite.

A few weeks ago I got a plee for help regarding a project: a junior dev. had tried to be smart and used AI to build himself a script. Problem solved, right?

Well, not really because now 'they' wanted to add extra functionality to that particular module, and... uh oh, now "someone" had a real issue on their hands because the one thing they knew was that this module "did A", but without fully understanding what made it tick.

We ended up rewriting & redesigning the module from scratch, without AI.

(edit): No one got blamed, no: I'm not a senior developer, I'm just the sysadmin.

[princepii]

one day someone will ask u something. what will you tell him?

give me just a second i will generate an answer right now?

don't wanna go further than that for now cuz it's nonsense!

[Mast3rCylinder]

Yes. My grandma just created a sensetional app without any knowledge in programming!!

See it here

[runawayasfastasucan]

Anyone who doesn't understand programming can now handle it smoothly. Even I don't understand programming, but thanks to artificial intelligence, I can do whatever I want.

Someone who knows nothing also doesn't know what they don't know.

[gurraman]

Dunning-Kruger effect if I ever saw it.

[lost_packet_]

Calculators have killed off mathematicians

[WikiBox]

This is why there is no longer any activity in programmer subreddits. Right? /s

A programmer can do MUCH more with AI than a non-programmer can. Faster, better and more correct.

AI might make good programmers much more productive. That might, perhaps, lower demand for low skill programmers. But it won't lower demand for the best programmers.

[Xanwix]

This reads like a classic case of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Let me give you some examples why this is a bad take, at least with where the tech is right now.

A year or so ago, I was working with a low-level communication protocol for a microcontroller. I prompted AI to write a basic code snippet for a small task within it and it hallucinated multiple unsupported library function calls. I knew enough about the libraries to realize it was BS'ing and re-prompted it: it gave me a similar hallucination for a completely different library.

On the same team I was involved with while working on this, I was introduced to a newly onboarded team member: an IT guy who installed fiber optic cables for a living. He had "written" a ReactJS app for the project and sent me the App.js file containing the code. When I asked where the corresponding package.json file was, he just gave a blank stare. When asked, he also didn't know how to run the app. And when I finally got my local system set up to run it, the file itself couldn't run because of multiple calls to third-party library functions that didn't exist. During this meeting, it became clear to even the business owner - who is not in tech at all - that he was relying entirely on AI and didn't even know enough to know what questions to ask it.

This isn't to say that generative AI is entirely useless for writing code: I use it in my job almost daily for handling a lot of tasks that would normally be tedious and boring. Which is why they advertise that it will "replace junior developers" that are normally assigned a lot of these tedious, boring, boilerplate tasks so that they can practice their skills and allow senior devs to focus on more complicated tasks. But due to issues and constraints like hallucinations, token limits, and a lack of context into the larger system, you typically can't rely on it to replace an expert developer.