Forrest BrazealJan 2, 2023

The “end of programming”, according to this depressingly plausible opinion piece, will come when LLMs cut the deterministic link between input and output that has always defined working with computers. https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext

It’s going to be kind of funny when shape rotators, who were so smug about automating away creative work, discover that they’ve turned their own jobs into wordcel vibe curation.

The End of Programming

The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.

Show threadBen Kehoe
@forrestbrazeal I think I'm not so sure about plausible. But it became too long for a toot. https://ben11kehoe.medium.com/the-end-of-programming-will-look-a-lot-like-programming-8b877c8efef8
The “End of Programming” will look a lot like programming

Communications of the ACM has a new article titled “The End of Programming” by Matt Welsh. It posits that traditional programs “will be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmed”…

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Show threadBen KehoeJan 2, 2023
@forrestbrazeal I think you may be right about "depressingly plausible" and that mine is the optimistic take that assumes we're not on the worst timeline.
Show threadgrepeJan 12, 2023
@ben11kehoe @forrestbrazeal i saw the same idea that you talk about in your blog expressed in a shorter comic form once: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensive-and-precise-spec/?