"John Carmack and Jensen Huang claim that no one should learn to program because AI will do it for us."

I don't agree at all.

The profession of programmer has been defenestrated by advances in hardware.

I have seen the best programs on hardware with very limited capabilities, especially programs from the late 80s and early 90s.

Just look at the resources consumed by a crappy program like office 365 that does the same as office 97.

And if we go to games...it's already tremendous....

I honestly do not get this point and more coming from John Carmack, programming well is an art, I doubt that artificial intelligence will reach this level in the next 20 years at least.

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I mean interesting but we disagree either way I still love you

I agree that IA does not replace human talent, it complements it, it is plagued with errors in almost every area, human talent and supervision is essential.

AI can't write code. The only thing I've seen it do well is beatnik haiku

The old rule of GIGO applies to AI - and gpt and google are trained on retarded material... It's just as likely to produce working code as a million chimpanzees tapping on keyboards to write Shakespeare

Agreed. Current AI tech doesn't think. It just gives you a sort of average or statistical amalgam of it's inputs. This works if the answer you need is one of the most commonly talked abou (or coded) ones. It is completely useless for solving problems and doing new things.

Of course, most code isn't doing new things. It's doing old things in new ways. This is why libraries and frameworks exist. This is also where AI can have an impact. Unfortunately, part of that impact is that we will get gigantic code bases that no one understands. Adding new features and fixing bugs will get harder and harder, even for the AI. Maintainability is an essential part of any commercially viable code base, and AI is going to destroy it. Any programmer who has ever taken a job where everyone who knows how the code actually works has quite will understand the severity of this problem. Everyone else is going to suffer.