All details are not created equal.
Some details are boring.
My AI dream (that I’m living happily) is getting to focus on the details that I find interesting and ignoring all the boilerplate details that modern software requires.
All details are not created equal.
Some details are boring.
My AI dream (that I’m living happily) is getting to focus on the details that I find interesting and ignoring all the boilerplate details that modern software requires.
Boilerplate details mean we've failed as an industry. Why haven't we already got the computer to automate all the boring bits without AI?
I feel that this is because people have been reinventing the wheel a lot in IT.
A lot of innovation that finally lands in programming languages has been done decades earlier, but now it's mostly awkwardly bolted on existing languages and frameworks.
why can't AI be that solution?
why use a nuclear bomb to drive a nail?
To further onto this, humans could technically simulate Turing machines themselves but they don't.
Efficiency and finding the right abstractions and tradeoffs is literally identical with making new capacities and capabilities. If all of your systems were truly "run by AI", we wouldn't have systems. Systems are systems because the AI uses well developed tools and protocols that humans have put together. It's a stable capacity.
You said what I was thinking. AI can do the things I always found mind numbing and tedious, but because I did it already early in my career, I know when to intervene because the agent is not doing it correctly. I think that is the OP's point.
I think about LLMs in software today as attempting to provide a similar role as compilers in terms of translating high-level thoughts into low-level details.
The only problem is that I actually trust compilers.
How quickly would you drop a non-deterministic compiler for the source code of a project?
I detest this compiler analogy so much: llms are non deterministic by nature, compilers should not and are not
So what? Jobs aren't supposed to be fun. Lots of people depend on those boring details.
I hope we can save “jobs aren’t supposed to be fun” for stuff like undertaker and grief counselor.
My feeling is making things should be mentally stimulating, and as many tedious parts that can be automated should be, so we can spend precious human thought on thinking instead of recitation.
I don’t know what you mean by the last part. Do you mean programmers depend on busy work to eat or the users depend on the human touch on the boring details?
Some of us just wouldn't work if it wasn't fun. I'd let myself starve in the streets. (I have some experience with starvation from an eating disorder phase in my twenties, it's only unbearable if you have to work).
Easy to say when you're not at risk of starving.