Software 4.0 is where people return to the craft instead of consuming the ai slop diarrhea that is stinking up the world around us.
Eventually, people will learn to stop putting faith in things and just get the job done. Stop trying to sidestep the process, and focus on being masters of the craft, using code as an efficient tool, not a leaky sledgehammer.
leakycap•7mo ago
> Eventually, people will learn to stop putting faith in things and just get the job done.
I don't see this tide turning. We already have really terrible human programmers who just "get it done" left and right. AI is sometimes much better than other coders I've had to work on projects with. I don't copy/paste anything, but it's great to help me consider ways to make my code better or to solve a problem.
Lately, I watched my nephew learn to code just from talking to Copilot (free version). I expected his interest to drop off, but Copilot fed tidbits of Godot code and he very quickly had some tiny tangible code right in front of him, and he has been using that leaky sledgehammer so effectively I cannot believe what he's managed to make. A real, playable game that's fun and he's very into.
At first, he just copy/pasted in the code so he could get the result. This very quickly fell apart, and now he reads and fixes scripts, add scenes, draws sprites, "discusses" ideas with Copilot nonstop.
I don't think this is going away, I think you haven't seen the potential. I was on the other side of the fence until I saw the potential it created in a human to do something they likely never would have achieved if they'd had to do it CS101 C++ var function loop etc
davydm•7mo ago
Eventually, people will learn to stop putting faith in things and just get the job done. Stop trying to sidestep the process, and focus on being masters of the craft, using code as an efficient tool, not a leaky sledgehammer.
leakycap•7mo ago
I don't see this tide turning. We already have really terrible human programmers who just "get it done" left and right. AI is sometimes much better than other coders I've had to work on projects with. I don't copy/paste anything, but it's great to help me consider ways to make my code better or to solve a problem.
Lately, I watched my nephew learn to code just from talking to Copilot (free version). I expected his interest to drop off, but Copilot fed tidbits of Godot code and he very quickly had some tiny tangible code right in front of him, and he has been using that leaky sledgehammer so effectively I cannot believe what he's managed to make. A real, playable game that's fun and he's very into.
At first, he just copy/pasted in the code so he could get the result. This very quickly fell apart, and now he reads and fixes scripts, add scenes, draws sprites, "discusses" ideas with Copilot nonstop.
I don't think this is going away, I think you haven't seen the potential. I was on the other side of the fence until I saw the potential it created in a human to do something they likely never would have achieved if they'd had to do it CS101 C++ var function loop etc