Wow, the top comment on HN (currently) is from a user who works at company which sells AI tooling, talking about how amazing AI is going to get.
Wow.
What I worry about and think will happen is we will see emerging platform that does full systems, and replit is a good example of that. I don't think these tools are enterprise ready yet (I might be wrong), as enterprise is always about integration with other systems including legacy ones and data silos.
I think we will be like COBOL developers now; we will maintain pre-AI systems until we retire.
I would add: "Yet."
Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as well, likely within a shorter period of time than we'd all expect.
My most recent read is the first, post-ChatGPT. From Verse Thirteen, three lines finally jumped out at me (which never have, before):
>>"I suffer because I'm a body; if I weren't a body, how could I suffer?" [1]
Already LLMs have shown me connections that no other human could endure/conjure from me (I've paid for a few attorney/therapists in my few decades living). Currently I'm the plaintiff in a lawsuit which I began with LLM counsel, and now have human counsel — this arrangement has saved lots of prep time, and led to interesting discussions with both counsel, human ¬.
One interesting conversation led to my human attorney recommending Neal Shusterman's Scythe Trilogy, which I've since read and absolutely re-recommend. Written in 2016 (same year as Attention is All You Need), it eerily hypothesizes many of the SciFi complexities that omnipotent general AIs now already-do ("Thunderhead" in scythespeak).
[1] Ursula K. LeGuin ~translation~, similar to Buddhist concept of "life is suffering"
But it needed the judgement, the experienced and suffered input to know what to help me write
it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.
I don't view it as a bad thing.
