As a software developer, I think GPT-3 & friends and beyond is the real next-gen step-change in software development, not SwiftUI. In 10, 20 years, I could see a future where that’s how all programming is done, with ‘low level' languages like SwiftUI(!) acting as merely the assembly language beneath high-level prompt-based compilers. Programming languages just an autogenerated build artifact. Voice-based holodeck programming come to life
@stroughtonsmith I can't wait to see the future where a language model sits at an overarching level in the IDE
Not only suggesting code, but new file names, assets, colour palettes. Designing and running instrumentation, tests, localization and documentation, and then suggesting deployment scripts