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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
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Is there another place that would let me easily and freely do this?
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A few years ago, there was potential for dirty looks coming your way if you suggested that you may be using AI for generating code. Soon, it’s going to be frowned upon to boast that you don’t use AI tools (because you’re probably wasting time).
Booooooooooo
(bring the pitchforks straight to my door)
He's kinda right. You would be a fool not to use AI now and again. No, I do NOT mean vibe coding, that's a fucking joke. ChatGPT (only one I've used) got me around a couple of sticky points when I was last scripting with PowerShell.
If you're stuck on a thing, why not see what an LLM will spit out? Last time I tried that it came with a non-working script, of course, but I picked some useful bits out and wrapped up quickly. Learned a new path I hadn't known or considered! From what I gathered reading Slack, our devs were using it in that manner. Nobody was dumb enough to trust the output, but again, AI can often get you over a hump.
All these stories we see about AI making coding take longer are about dipshits that lean on it too hard without actually knowing what they're doing, or naively trusting the output, or heaven-for-fucking-fend, both.
Yes, you still have to be able to actually write code. No, it won't replace developers. However, if AI can speed up a devs work, and it looks like it can, we'll need fewer devs.