Software engineering is dead. ChatGPT killed it

This AI is replacing programmers. The future of programming may be replaced entirely by this new AI called GTP-3 by OpenAI. Are the years of cushy jobs at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft over forever?

What do you think? Let me know in the comments I read every comment.

[JasonGoodison]

I'm reading everyones replies and love them so far. Keep them coming!

[PabloOrtega-kjev]

Before ChatGPT: 4Hours coding, 2Hours Debugging
After Chat GPT : 1Hour Coding, 8Hours Debugging

[addyastik]

after this, now im asking myself should i pursue computer science or not

[pavel]

It seems to me that one who requests those chunks of code still needs to understand how the code works, how to connect the dots, and also how to ensure security of the code, how optimal it is, etc. Moreover, one needs to be able to actually properly form these requests. Still one needs to be a good programmer. But this may definitely speed up development, but not necessarily drastically cut the need for developers. However, a tool like this one may actually make mediocre developers more employable and thus decrease the salary range lower bound.

[oriolcubeles]

Bro this is both so cool and scary at the same time... this is literally devaluating knowledge and leaving creativity, irrationality, and feelings as the only valuable points/skills for someone to get a job. Simply crazy.

[irustv]

Quickly this thing can replace only coders, not software engineers

[TheLastCodebender]

What you said at the end, that's right, I see those AI tools as empowerments. I think in the near future, AI will 100x what developers can do.

[shamoonsaqib]

What if Google overtakes ChatGPT for their chat and smart assistants? I think we're having an ex machina Turing test moment. Magnificent.

[lucasdecarvalho]

That´s quite scary in the beginning because it´s chocking to see what this AI can do. But after this moment, you realize how benefiting this tecnology can be to us. Tasks that take hours can be done e a hugely lower time, giving more space to other projects and advancing tecnology more quickly.


edit: i wrote using the portuguese grammar punctuation rules haha so i had to change everything

[IgnatiousRainwater]

This is some scary stuff, if this is already possible, I cannot imagine where technology will be at in 10 years. I believe even the Cyberpunk era will eventually become a real thing.

Edit: I've been doing computer programming for a very long time, I've used tons of languages, I eventually want to use this for things like ethical hacking and exploitation development. Do you think I should continue to learn these 2 career fields? Do you think AI will also replace them? I think it's possible.

[yumil]

I'm very new at coding, and this is very intimidating and scary. But I would also like to point out that it seems to me like this is a structured and highly accurate google search engine. It will take a lot more than ChatGPT to replace the knowledge and experience of a software engineer.

[connorskudlarek]

ChatGPT is not going to replace devs. Here's 2 big reasons why, and reason 1 alone is likely to prevent widespread mainstream adoption:

1. Everything it writes is NOT commercial code. If you work at a big company and just stole ChatGPTs code and it's identical to something it was trained on that was not licensed for commercial use... that big company's lawyers are going to want you fired, because you've just opened them up to SOOO many lawsuits. ;)

2. It takes a developer to know how to even use ChatGPT to code. You realized it was using bootstrap, but what if it started writing out PHP code? How would you even begin to troubleshoot bad code from ChatGPT? How would you know which code is compatible, and how would you know how to connect different parts of the codebase to accomplish complex tasks? Or to deliver the code quickly to the end user?

To me, what this tech will do is help Junior devs waste less of the Senior devs time. That's about it.

"I've got a bug coming from this code snippet, but can't figure out why. What do you think is the problem?" Is something that ChatGPT might be able to help answer in 10 seconds. But disrupting the Senior dev might throw them off of what they were doing for the next 20 minutes.

Quickly providing an answer to someone learning something. Even for Senior devs who are like "I know how to write this thing in C++, but I haven't wrote anything in Rust before. Can you convert this code to Rust?" Then it does it, and they go on about their day without having to spend it learning Rust syntax.

Time saved on things we would have Googled. THAT is where this will shine in my honest opinion. But Google searches didn't replace developers, and this won't either.

[Nick.....]

Chat Gpt gets stuff wrong quite a bit. Also, I don't know how well it'll play when dealing with massive code bases because it will be dealing with language it hasn't yet been trained on. Overall I think it's really cool and I use it as a tool for learning, but I do think it has a long way to go before it can do much more than reformat code that is already online, which you would've copy pasted anyway. It's like transiting from a dictionary to googling definitions.

[Alien-crzb]

I think I fucked up again
I wanted to get a cs degree so i won't get replaced by a computer and now I'm gonna get replaced by a computer

[baseballMMAgames]

STOP DOING THIS FOR VIEWS! So rude and immature to spread all of this fear and misinformation. It's my personal mission to unsubscribe from every channel spreading this garbage around.

[xokuyaa]

It seems like I’m out of a job before I even got one (first year comp sci major here)

[mizu]

I just feel bad and concerned for any future/current CS students, considering it was a market of high demand and relevancy that was estimated to last for decades to come. For anyone saying it doesn't matter since there will still be some programmers left to compliment the AI, there is already a plethora of programmers with industry experience that you just can't get grasp through education alone. Younger pupils have been told that they can comfortably pursue their dreams in the field without any fear of its demands dropping, and now with AI technology beginning to threaten job placements, I'm both interested and worried regarding how this will impact many people's futures. Honestly good luck to them all.

[donutrangerr]

Chat Gippity isn't a threat to software engineering. It's a threat to newcomers and fresh graduates that wants to break into the industry. Veterans would just use the tool as an added value productivity.

[KoloriGaming]

To all of you who are not scared yet, it's only working on 2021 data atm, it will get updated in 6 months and it will be 500x stronger/smarter. So imagine what will happen in just a few years.

[Elemons]

As an autistic educator I think this is brilliant step to help me in my job and life in general. I asked it what tools could help me focus and it gave me a list for visual, motion and auditory on prompts. Some I knew about but others I hadn't considered or remembered. I want to explore how it can help people with ADD.