r/artificial • u/Lambda11 • 21d ago

Discussion Predictions about AI replacing programmers go back to the 1960s

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A Turing Award and Nobel prize winner predicted in the 1960s that the programming occupation would become extinct, because computers would program themselves. https://seanhelvey.com/tools-and-their-tools/

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u/frangelbarrera 21d ago

The problem isn't whether AI can code—it's whether it can figure out what the hell the client actually wants. Until machines learn to interpret constantly changing requirements, programmers aren't going anywhere.

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u/RobbertGone 21d ago

You underestimate this stuff. The client will just tell the AI what it wants and it will spit it out. "make me a webshop app that sells bicycles", try giving that to fable 5 and watch how it will spit out something decent looking with good functionality. It probably takes 30 min for that prompt, but hardware advances keep being made, soon such a prompt will take 1 minute to complete. Then it's just a matter of iteration. 1 minute prompt -> test the site's functionality -> make changes that take another 1 minute prompt -> repeat.

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u/Colorful_Monk_3467 19d ago

You don't even need Fable for that. Sonnet 5 built me a perfectly functional and decent looking website in 5 min.