IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anytime soon

Re:IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anyti... by jvanderbot on Sunday March 23, 2025 @09:21AM (#43452744)

I can take my blog or website, fire up aider, and ask it to completely reformat or restyle it or add effects. It does a fantastic job at that, and that's something I'd have to pay $20 on Fiverr to get done before because I cannot coordinate colors or style things to save my life.

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Re:IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anyti... by aprilthird2021 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @09:29AM (#43452811)

This is a good example. It's really good at updating old, small projects. Whereas most humans need to build context about the project, and do so slowly.

I wonder over time how those small, infrequent updates might hamper the ability to perform the next, small infrequent update (as your code begins to resemble less and less any examples the AI might have seen and more and more a kludge of differing styles, libraries, etc.), but that's really not any different than how most projects like a personal website operate today.

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Re:IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anyti... by jvanderbot on Sunday March 23, 2025 @09:39AM (#43452864)

Well in this case this is a complexity-preserving change. The same few template files get updated with each change. So, I can't say for sure but I imagine this is effectively zero cost.

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Re:IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anyti... by aprilthird2021 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @03:22PM (#43455143)

Oh I see. You're not adding a new feature or something

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