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byAnonymous Coward writes:
AI is very good for novices, people who don't know something well.
Executives use it for office tools.
Programmers and engineers use it when working with languages and tools they don't know well. We're all novices at some languages and tools, so AI can be useful to everybody, to some extent.
The big problem is that most of the material on the Internet on programming and engineering is done by novices. Professionals don't have the time to be posting and even if they did they aren't allowed to share their work
bytwdorris ( 29395 ) writes:
You're right, but....
I mean, yes, you're right in that a novice using AI will very likely never advance much beyond being a novice. Which sucks and I don't have any answers for that yet. It's a HUGE looming issue and even my younger son is caught up in this mess trying to find a job when companies have absolutely put the brakes on hiring "novices" out of school (not even sure I'd call him a novice as he's quite competent but apparently "right out of school" immediately removes you from consideration at most places as far as I can tell).
But here's the tricky part...the part that's making this whole problem worse by acting as a feedback loop of sorts. When these tools are used by experienced system architects, coders, technical writers, etc., (all of which I, perhaps egotistically, consider myself as) they can be made to do incredible things very quickly and very completely in a way that a human isn't going to be able to slog through in days much less the minutes it takes these tools to crank it out.
And interns? I've been offered "another intern" just about every year for the last 10 years. But in the last 2 years, I've turned them down. I just do not need them anymore. But more than that, I enjoy getting that work done myself now because it's an opportunity to experiment with all these new tools.
And that's the spiraling feedback loop of destruction, unfortunately. It's not just that we don't "need" junior coders. That's true, but if the process of coming up to speed on all this new tech wasn't so interesting to all the gray beards like me, we'd be more than happy to being on junior coders and spool them up on this instead. But that's not the case... I haven't seen interesting new tech that actually got me truly excited about software and hardware in *decades*. Literally...*decades* of mediocre or (for sure) declining quality and the flattening of designs and architectures had left me 100% ready to walk away and just go start farming or something.
But then THIS shows up!? Are you kidding me! And you want me to let all the newbies play around with it and leave me behind? I mean, yeah, we probably *should* let that happen but I can't. Coding is just too much fun again and that's what got us all into this decades ago.
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