I’m a dev. I’ve been for a while. My boss does a lot technology watch. He brings in a lot of cool ideas and information. He’s down to earth. Cool guy. I like him, but he’s now convinced that AI LLMs are about to swallow the world and the pressure to inject this stuff everywhere in our org is driving me nuts.
I enjoy every part of making software, from discussing with the clients and the future users to coding to deployment. I am NOT excited at the prospect of transitioning from designing an architecture and coding it to ChatGPT prompting. This sort of black box magic irks me to no end. Nobody understands it! I don’t want to read yet another article about how an AI enthusiast is baffled at how good an LLM is at coding. Why are they baffled? They have "AI" twelves times in their bio! If they don’t understand it who does?!
I’ve based twenty years of career on being attentive, inquisitive, creative and thorough. By now, in-depth understanding of my tools and more importantly of my work is basically an urge.
Maybe I’m just feeling threatened, or turning into "old man yells at cloud". If you ask me I’m mostly worried about my field becoming uninteresting. Anyways, that was the rant. TGIF, tomorrow I touch grass.
Same. Few devs are excitedly working to get it approved and I just do not care. There are some places it might be easier, who wants to write "parse an xml file to an array" ever again, but even then it's not going to be perfect.
I play with AI art for fun. It is not accurate. It's hours of updating your prompt, tinkering, then fixing what it fucked up. It can for sure produce some great results, but then out of 20 tries it can do 5 amazing results and 15 images of people with extra fingers, warped faces, and even then that's with as much filtering as I can think to apply.
I think for the most part this will be "parse this xml doc" and then go through and fix it to work with my xml doc. I'm sure I can tinker with the prompt a thousand times but then I might as well write it myself.
What I'm really afraid of is jr devs thinking this will do work for them and trying to sneak ai code past me in code review