Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO's of coding being dead in the water with the rapid prevalence of AI sentiments: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"
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Software developers might need to upskill in coding with the rapid advancement of AI to remain relevant in the job market.
  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

    Have these people ever tried to code using chatGPT? It’s wrong SO often.

    Edit: maybe they know this but they want to drive down the price of developers by pretending they don’t need them anymore. I would not be surprised if this were the case here.

    • Buckshot@programming.dev
      10·
      2 months ago

      it can barely get single functions correct but we’re supposed to believe it can write entire systems from a single prompt? Either way our job at the moment is writing instructions for another piece of software (compiler) to turn into the code. This just adds another level of abstraction. High level programming languages already let us do more with fewer staff. It didn’t make coders redundant, it let to even more software.

      edit: forgot to add, agree with your edit, that or just trying to inflate their stock prices.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Ah that AI hype train is still rolling I see. Funny they said the exact same thing 24 months ago.

    I have a feeling it’ll happen to us right around the same time Tesla self driving fully leaves beta.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    14·
    2 months ago

    Gpt4 is seriously idiotic with code. It’s only capable of some basic stuff. Anything mildly complex and it’ll keep bouncing back and forth between mistakes as I keep correcting it. It just can’t reason.

  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
    14·
    2 months ago

    Good luck with that, idiots. You can’t automcomplete your way into knowing what you are doing because this shit isn’t deterministic or all that often correct.

    Hype bullshit desperate for buyers

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, the motivation here is “please panic-buy our GPUs/please panic-buy into our cloud GPU infrastructure ”

  • CrystalRainwater@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    2 months ago

    Read: Two guys with no AI expertise agree that its boosting of their share price should continue (real shocker).

    These news articles really love jerking these CEOs off

  • SpectralPineapple@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    That was a a fairly short article reporting on another article. The title gives the impression that the assertion was made with certainty when the actual quote makes it clear that this was meant as speculation, a calculated guess made on a conversation that was not meant to be public. I truly have no inclination to defend corporate leadership, but perhaps it would be more productive to direct our sentiments towards the article that is being quoted instead.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      Great point, but this part of the quote is still dumb as rocks:

      Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It’s not necessarily the skill in and of itself. The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that’s interesting for my end users to use?

      Sure, if you have a big workforce hand-coding UI, you might replace some of them by better tools. But things like that are a fraction of a fraction of the responsibilities developers have