Ask HN: Dev trends in 2023?

8 pointspublius_3y ago1 comments

Hi HN,

With deep learning on a meteoric rise and eating up a large chunk of the attention space, what other dev trends to look out for in 2023? What will be the next beat after RL?

Some developers claim to write up to 80% of their code with Co-Pilot. How will this impact more tedious SWE tasks? Frontend developers?

What new specializations might open up, and what old paradigms might fall?

I’ve slightly noticed both Julia & JAX being given more attention. Thoughts?

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Shinmon3y ago

I think tools like co-pilot and co will help engineers to get a feeling for possible solutions. This isn't much different than copying from stackoverflow without using the browser. I think a lot of boilerplate code will be written by such systems in the future and modified to fit the exact needs.

The key will be to understand the prompts you have to use in order to create the right code. In the end, it's a supercharged auto completion/intellisense.

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