AI in programming SN1074

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dusanmal

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SG observation that AI will eventually dominate programming is spot on. I will add one insight about it from my work on AI in Radiology: greatest breakthrough came when MDs realized that this tool works differently than humans and invented new procedures, highly unsuitable (next to impossible) for humans but hand-inglove for the way AI works. Hence, I think that real AI takeover of programming may come when we invent new programming language suitable for AI. Though, SG favorite Assembly may already be it.
 
This is going to create two future problems.

First, there will be a dependency on AI. If you're the company creating the AI that is widely used, and if you've created a dependency on it, you can raise prices to the moon. It's the new tobacco.

Second, programmers are going to push code that they don't understand, and there is no guarantee that the code they push will be secure. AI makes mistakes.

So we end up in a word of dumb engineers and expensive AI agents. Feels very dystopian to me.

Right now, what I am seeing is the need to constantly update my router with fixes since the bugs are rapidly coming. Only patching windows on patch Tuesday doesn't make sense anymore. There are too many bugs being found.