OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete
&gt; OpenAI’s existing Codex product, launched in Aug. 2021, is designed to translate natural language into code.<p>For the sake of argument, let&#x27;s say they succeed at this. They won&#x27;t, but let&#x27;s say they do. What does that mean?<p>It means that instead of specifying the function of software precisely via programming languages developed over many decades of study, thought, and research, you get to specify the function of the software <i>in English</i>, the shittiest programming language I could possibly imagine. If you&#x27;d rather build software in English than in a programming language, then you don&#x27;t really want to build software at all.<p>Good luck with that.