Once upon a time, there were people who had the job title “computer.” Then we invented computers. All those “computer” jobs shifted from actual calculation, to coding, configuring, and using c...
If the LLM coder bots are good enough to take all the jobs, they'll also be good enough to contribute code to open-source projects, so the open source development process will probably evolve into a bunch of humans nitpicking each other's LLM code.
Git-wikis could allow people to discuss and edit code collaboratively, like how contributors work on Wikipedia/Wikifreedia.
Highly active projects could have every line of code accompanied by lines of comments from critics and defenders explaining how the conclusion was reached to use that exact line of code.
This way, humans could retain control, and human knowledge of programming could continue to grow, instead of atrophying.
Or maybe I'm putting too much faith in people again.
(Copied and pasted from a previous post of mine)
Git-wikis could allow people to discuss and edit code collaboratively, like how contributors work on Wikipedia/Wikifreedia.
Highly active projects could have every line of code accompanied by lines of comments from critics and defenders explaining how the conclusion was reached to use that exact line of code.
This way, humans could retain control, and human knowledge of programming could continue to grow, instead of atrophying.
Or maybe I'm putting too much faith in people again.
(Copied and pasted from a previous post of mine)
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