Why National Labs are investing (heavily) in AI

Re:Why National Labs are investing (heavily) in AI by const_cast on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:41AM (#43969887)

I don't think they're good coders at all, I think they're good at generating small snippets of codes.

If you tried to replace a programmer with whatever LLM it would completely flop. Just write a script to fetch Jira tickets and let it rip - it won't work well. Because it doesn't know that maybe the Jira ticket is stupid, or that if they implement this change it requires insight from Team X, or that this bug is really intended behavior, etc.

Being a programmer is much more than, like, making a neat regular expression or generating slightly customized boilerplate. As it stands, these are assistants in which programmers guide and handhold them the whole way. They are not coders.

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Re:Why National Labs are investing (heavily) in AI by vonneumannstan on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:37AM (#43973465)

So whats actually important are PMs. Got it.

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Re:Why National Labs are investing (heavily) in AI by const_cast on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:12PM (#43976505)

No, what I mean is you’re going to encounter hundreds of technical and business challenges while you’re writing code (that you don’t know before you write the code).

Making those decisions and communicating is a big chunk of being a programmer.

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