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Earlier today, I saw a news article breathlessly trumpeting (something like) "Industry can now replace entry-level software developers with AI!"
Who's going to be the ones to tell 'Industry' and the breathless media where 'experienced software developers' come from?
@lightweight
ChatGPT isn't too shabby at simple code, but it's still only a shortcut, not a replacement.
@vecrumba I'm sure it's pretty good. And, like stack exchange, I'm sure it'll help some fledgling devs get going... but the real expertise is in knowing how to frame the problem you're trying to solve with software... And there's the rather prickly issue of #ChatGPT creating derivatives of #FOSS code without permission from the copyright holders... Not a fan of that.
We had the same problem with #Microsoft and #Github #copilot. They use #opensource code to train their models and make money off of it.
Now Microsoft is doing the same with #Bing.
Never mind #Figma and #Adobe. We should never have allowed Microsoft to acquire Github
@Stark9837 @lightweight @vecrumba Maybe we can ask ChatGPT to improve the open source code it was trained on and it'll enter a recursive learning/maintenance loop it can't recover from.
@lwriemen
"ChatGPT, write ChatGPT"
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@lightweight @vecrumba