Re:AI will change the world but not in the way you think
by bluefirebrand on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:21PM
(#43484513)
> I agree with you but as a thought exercise: does it matter if there is a lot of boilerplate if ultimately the code works and is performant enough
Yeah it matters because it is almost guaranteed that eventually a human will have to interact with the code directly so it should still be good quality code
> But I do wonder if eventually it won't make sense to ever write code and it will turn into a pastime
Even the fictional super-AI of Star Trek wasn't so good that the engineers didn't have to deeply understand the underlying work that it produced.
Tons of Trek episodes deal with the question of "if the technology fails, how do the humans who rely on it adapt?"
In the fictional stories we see people who are absolute masters of their domain solve the problems and win the day
In reality we have glorified chatbots, nowhere near the abilities of the fictional super-AI, and we already have people asking "do people even need to master their domains anymore?"
I dunno about you but I find it pretty discouraging
Yeah it matters because it is almost guaranteed that eventually a human will have to interact with the code directly so it should still be good quality code
> But I do wonder if eventually it won't make sense to ever write code and it will turn into a pastime
Even the fictional super-AI of Star Trek wasn't so good that the engineers didn't have to deeply understand the underlying work that it produced.
Tons of Trek episodes deal with the question of "if the technology fails, how do the humans who rely on it adapt?"
In the fictional stories we see people who are absolute masters of their domain solve the problems and win the day
In reality we have glorified chatbots, nowhere near the abilities of the fictional super-AI, and we already have people asking "do people even need to master their domains anymore?"
I dunno about you but I find it pretty discouraging