• AggressivelyPassive
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    11 year ago

    But those people don’t need to be programmers.

    The reality is, that most software is complex, but trivial. It’s s bunch of requirements, but there’s no magic behind it. An AI that can turn a written text containing the requirements into a decently running program will replace tons of developers.

    And since a future AI, that’s actually trained to do software, won’t have problem juggling 300 requirements at once (like humans have), it’s relatively easy to trust the result.

    • @dust_accelerator
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      01 year ago

      it’s relatively easy to trust the result.

      … just as easy as taking the responsibility for it if it fails?

      • AggressivelyPassive
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        11 year ago

        Do human programmers not fail?

        I don’t want to hype AI, but you’re basically comparing a high school graduate AI (lots of general knowledge, no specialization) with a perfect senior dev. But that’s not really fair.

        As soon as an AI works better than the average developer in a given area, it will outperform them. Simple as that.

        Of course it will make errors, but the question is, are the extra errors compared to a human worth the savings?

        Just a quick example: let’s say you’d need 10 devs of 100k a year and they produce errors worth 200k a year. That means costs of 1.2million a years.

        If an AI costs 100k in licenses, replaces 5 devs and only adds, say 200k in errors, you’re still at only 1 million a year.