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Lawjarp2 t1_isrr7dz wrote

I think the graphic artist to programmer comparison is not so straightforward. Sure I can see how this version of codex, with all its limitations, seems like what artists ignored a few years ago. But unlike artists it's not easily visible when a mistake is made and not easy at all to correct it if the code is huge through natural language to a dumb AI.

If, however, someone is capable of doing that, they are already very good at coding and the AI will just augment them. Thereby, increasing productivity and fancier software is produced. There is always more tasks, more features to add, more customers to reach so there is unlikely to be a decrease in workforce. Atleast not immediately.

On the other hand, if AI is capable of doing stuff independently it's probably gonna replace a lot more than just programmers and software engineers. It is probably capable of replacing well everybody.

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AdditionalPizza OP t1_iss9qxs wrote

I think directly increasing efficiency for programmers has the effect of accelerating everything you say is "on the other hand"

But I'll ask you this:

Say this increases programmers efficiency by 100%. So now 1 programmer is able to get done as much work as 2 programmers. You can say "great, now they can get twice as much work done, so the company will get double the value"

But if that's truly the case, why wouldn't that company, today, just hire more programmers? Is it a matter of cost? So would it not make sense that a company could also have half as many programmers if they do 2x the amount of productivity?

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