Re:AI teaches itself to use an API
by Firmwarrior on Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:43PM
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Seems like an unpopular take, but I agree with this sentiment
The most I can imagine coming out of this is that those "app creator" apps/websites will actually work. So you can get a reasonably functional app without necessarily being a software engineer. A current-day software engineer could end up with the capabilities of a pre-2023 VP of Engineering in charge of a 200 person department.
That doesn't mean there'll be no work, it just means the work will be different and possibly much more interesting
Unless all jobs are unnecessary, you just change your job. People seem to assume that if robots can code, all coders are out of a job, but I mean, if I didn't have to code, I'd just start all the businesses I've always wanted to start because like all the businesses people who are going to be replacing me with a bot, I too will have the time to replace business people with my bots.
Hell you will be able to replace all of Microsoft, with...a bot, just ask other similar bots to reproduce all their products as open source, compile them and use them.
Pretty much all computer related jobs are at stake...in the short term, I guess we're in for quite a dystopian economic collapse if basically the whole world is put out of a job?
On the other hand, I'm more concerned about where we're going with "AI". At this point it feels completely reckless, kind of barrelling towards some type of future, which does seem like it's going to be "interesting", but we're really, as a society not discussing the intended outcomes, I guess just hoping for the best?