The funny thing is at my current employer, they mentioned that "coding is increasingly becoming a solved problem" and in the same breath, mentioned that one project was too hard for anyone to do so they're not doing it and would rather sell existing features...
replyWeird. Coding isn’t really “solved” - because “coding” isn’t just the process of typing in characters as fast as possible - BUT the skill floor has been massively lowered while also raising the skill ceiling considerably.
replyWe’re doing projects now that seemed impossible before because we have access to these powerful AI models. They can make things that would have taken weeks or months take days now, freeing up time for even more ambitious buildouts we never would’ve even considered before.
While abused by LLM vendors, that phrase in one form or another I've been hearing since the early '00s and it's likely way older.
replySure but have you ever seen it actually play out in practice like it currently is? Whether or not it's true (of course it's not) people are currently behaving as if it is and firing/hiring accordingly.
replyWell, when was the last time you wrote machine code by hand?
reply... but then they went and changed what coding meant.
We've always been layering abstractions on top of abstractions. If we get to an abstraction that works well enough that you no longer have to dive down into the previous layer, we say we've solved coding, and change what coding means. Obviously LLMs aren't there yet.
I love that quote, especially considering the insane amount of bugs that are produced.
It’s as easy to debunk as someone claiming ”I can jump to the moon”.
reply"This thing isn't 100% perfect, contrary to what absolutely no one anywhere said at any time"
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