Title: We&#x27;ve all seen it - ChatGPT genuinely solving coding puzzles. Clearly, <i>clearly</i>, that&#x27;s a long way from building MVP products, designing new programming languages or writing &quot;Hello World&quot; in Haskell. But it&#x27;s also a long way since even GPT-3, never mind status quo 10 years ago. It would be cool to discuss what a future looks like where &quot;human operators&quot; of programming are competing against a machine. I don&#x27;t think it is imminent, but equally I think it&#x27;s less imminent than I did a week ago.<p>Some threads that come to mind:<p>- Are these language models better than current offshore outsourced coders? These can code too, sort of, and yet they don&#x27;t threaten the software industry (much).<p>- What would SEs do if any layperson can say &quot;hey AI slave, write me a program that...&quot;? What would we, literally, do? Are there other, undersaturated professions we&#x27;d go into, where analytical thinking is required? Could we, ironically, wake up in a future where thinking skills are taken over by machine, and it&#x27;s other skills - visual, physical labour, fine motor skills - that remain unautomated?<p>- Are we even the first ones in the firing line? Clearly, for now AI progress is mostly in text-based professions; we haven&#x27;t seen a GPT equivalent for video comprehension, for example. Are lawyers at risk? Writers?<p>- What can SEs do, realistically, to protect themselves? Putting the genie back in the bottle is not, as discussed many times in other threads, an option.<p>- Or is it all bogus (with justification), and we&#x27;re fine?<p>No doubt ChatGPT will chip in...
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