Re:AI assistants: The convenient crutch for new developers o...
by ModernMech on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:48PM
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Sure, but I think the imagined hellscape is one where the entire stack of developers don't know what they're doing.
It's like the ostensible toaster company that has outsourced design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, HR, and even the janitorial staff. The question then is: what does the toaster company even know about making toasters? If you play this game long enough, then you arrive at a point where entire sectors operate this way. Keep going and the entire economy works this way. At some point we have to stop outsourcing, or we'll lose a lot of knowledge when the original creators of that knowledge kick the bucket. At this point we can't rely on that knowledge being encoded in language models.
It's like the ostensible toaster company that has outsourced design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, HR, and even the janitorial staff. The question then is: what does the toaster company even know about making toasters? If you play this game long enough, then you arrive at a point where entire sectors operate this way. Keep going and the entire economy works this way. At some point we have to stop outsourcing, or we'll lose a lot of knowledge when the original creators of that knowledge kick the bucket. At this point we can't rely on that knowledge being encoded in language models.