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Re:GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language by anonzzzies on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:21AM (#35179145)
You probably never had to work with one of the 99% of programmers in the world that are not of your level (I am assuming it is high, otherwise you might just be very scared saying all this, and rightfully so), but me, working in the fortune 1000 company space, worked with many. Most of my colleagues can readily be replaced by gpt-4 today as far as coding and documentation goes. They make the same errors as you noticed gpt make (which I have to fix usually), only gpt does it in seconds vs hours and practically for free. By replacing all these people, I don’t have to build in the overhead of communicating with them (I just copy the jira task in gpt with some context and a few seconds later I have something better than most my colleagues write in 2-3 hours, on a good day), and they are happier doing nothing anyway. The company won’t fire them probably as managers get paid more and promoted more ‘managing’ more people.

This is not an exception either; teams like mine exist in every large enterprise. I worked in several of them and this AI makes life so much better. Let’s not pretend it makes certain outsourcing countries not fully obsolete though, to the tune of 10s of millions+ programmers, data entry workers, text producers (bloggers for seo, docs no one reads etc) and more are mostly all already worse than gpt3.5 and 4. Wait for 6 or 7.

Re:GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language by Jensson on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:33AM (#35179213)
Many humans have lost their jobs to dumb programs before. If your job is mostly copying code snippets and modifying them a tiny bit then yeah, you should worry, these language models are great at that. If you are doing more creative coding then it will probably take a while.
Re:GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language by anonzzzies on Thursday March 16, 2023 @03:37AM (#35179238)
Yes, totally correct. I am just saying what I see as the norm; the norm is not you and me or many other HNers. They should worry in my opinion. I see it every day, and worse, none of them even heard of gtp or copilot.
Re:GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language by anonzzzies on Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:19PM (#35184085)
> Many humans have lost their jobs to dumb programs before

I do think really this is you’re not being in touch with most of reality and what most people on earth do daily at this moment. It definitely as nothing to do with the productivity you have and the drive you feel internally to ‘get shit done’. Most people, by a huge stretch, get education, want to do work what they are told to do related so that education and that’s it. They have no, at all, drive to ever move beyond that. They learned Angular on their first job; that’s it. Etc.

This is now replaceable; this is not, at all, comparable to automation before this. It’s a threshold; it you cannot see it, you definitely will be shocked in the coming years. This is not going away and it is replacing humans now on a small scale. The companies that really can just remove 90% of their staff are late always, but it will come. I see this all day because I work in massive orgs where this holds, not only for tech.