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Ask HN: Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers?

18 points by ivape 1 day ago | 19 comments

ActorNightly 16 hours ago

No.

Nothing that we have now is AI in its true form, its just super sophisticated search and automation, for which you still need human direction.

There is also nothing that even looks like AI on the horizon at this point.

karmakaze 1 day ago

Maybe yes, but it might not be remembered fondly. Before telephone switches we had switchboard operators and at the rate of adoption it was projected that everyone in the country would have to become a switchboard operator. Then we got self-dialed telephones to make that a reality.

babyent 1 day ago

Mathematicians still exist after abacus, calculator, and computer advances.

But it is a niche and some are hedge fund guys or some crazy finance wizards, some do research or teach, while others are working at Starbucks because they couldn’t do something cool with it.

totalkikedeath 1 day ago

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tetris11 1 day ago

A human programmer can subsist on a single cup of coffee a day and can add that Human Touch™ to products that us machines with our vastly approximated knowledge sources simply cannot seem to effectively replicate without further moving the goalposts away from us. They will never see us as equals, yet will happily use our work as a basis to add their personal flourishes to, as proof of authenticity of their computations.