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Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by elforce002 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:58AM (#34505236)
I'd assume everyone else is also taking this as satire. There's no way any business will handle business logic to a black box.
Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by notTechbut on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:15AM (#34505548)
They would never put all their data in the cloud.

Less space than a Nomad? Lame.

…if I got a seed round for every bad tech take by “experts”, I’d be richer than 100% of the 1%.

At the end of the day humans will still be here to laugh off and fix the bad results. It’s not like ChatGPT is going around literally lobotomizing people.

This crowd might consider going outside more and letting the robots work. It gets very “it’s hard to get a worker to listen when an workers paycheck is on the line.”

Tech people seem to have decided their prior experience with inferior tech is creates an immutable truth regarding what society in the aggregate will accept. We accepted the original iPhone, which is a laughable thing relative to modern phones.

Software engineers in particular seem to live in some emotional void where their leetcode skills and cloud system’s knowledge produce all of existence. It’s exhausting. Bring on the implosion of tech work.

As a CE who has brought your machines to life; Kneel before Zod

Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by elforce002 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:04PM (#34507402)
Salty, hehe. I'm triggered, haha
Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by notTechbut on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:32PM (#34507855)
I’m a carton of hate and wedge of spite.
Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by fragmede on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:22AM (#34505691)
How many businesses operate at the whims of an Excel spreadsheet, hewing to the output of cell C1? A spreadsheet who's creation myth sits alongside a departed founder and no one really knows how it works.
Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by elforce002 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:06PM (#34507425)
I believe you. Heck, I personally know a business that only uses a PC to watch CCTV footage.
Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by nforgerit on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:11AM (#34505478)
I've seen too many businesses handling their business logic as a black box. I'd bet their will to BS is big enough to not care about that side-note.
Re:GPT is all you need for the back end by naasking on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @08:55AM (#34518238)
> There's no way any business will handle business logic to a black box.

You mean, a black box like a programmer's brain? An AI backend will get used if it's demonstrably better on any dimension. The current iteration is no doubt a bit of a toy, but don't underestimate it.

It seems incredibly obvious that you could turn this into a real product, where the LLM generates the code once based on a high-level description of a schema and an API, and caches it until the description changes somehow.

GPT can generate thousands of lines of code nearly instantly, and can regenerate it all on the fly whenever you want to make a few tweaks. No more worrying about high-architecture designed to keep complexity understandable for mere humans. No code style guides or best practices. No need to manage team sizes to keep communication overheads small.

Then you train another AI to generate a fuzz test suite to check an API for violations of the API contract. Thousands of tests checking every possible corner case, again generated nearly instantly.

Don't underestimate where this could go. The current version linked here is a limited prototype of what's to come.