What if some one very cruel programmer programmed a programmer and designer AI that can generate code 700X faster, generate flawless and reliable code / design in any and Every programming language that could replace 100% of the programmers in the world?

What if he give it for free?

And companies started to fire all programmers and designers to download the free AI and use it and it was better than every programmer in the world?

What if the AI was able to code a whole Office suit and all Adobe products in just 3 seconds?

What if it was very intelligent that no one needs to hire a programmer ?

What if any one started to create their own app using it and replace programmers like car replaced horse?

What do you feel about it?
Do you wish if it happen?
Or not?

Is it your dream?
Or nightmare?

If less people have to go through the pain I'm going, the better.

A programmers job is done when they're code replaces they're job.
This is why we have manual processors 🤷‍♂️

Ai will one day replace part of our job, maybe even all of it eventually, but I've got a feeling I won't be alive to see that happen.

It's highly unlikely.

Even an autonomous artificial intelligence with conscience has to process data and make decisions.

The necessary power to do that... And the storage (each choice leading to a series of other choices) / resources are astronomic.

While I think that AI has gone far and will lead to astonishing results / achievements in the future, we should be more realistic.

AI development alone created a lot of moral / ethic and thus law questions - even if it would be possible at the moment / near future, it would certainly not be welcome. We'd be at war over it, for sure. The military aspect of AI is just too tempting. (I do not condemn AI research, but humanity excels at killing themselves and AI is an welcomed advancement for that...)

I think that AI is an important advancement, but we should draw a line how far we want to go.

Humanity is on a fast pace regarding innovation and technology - but the negative side of it and our inability to overcome our problems peacefully is in my opinion a clear sign that a human shouldn't create a thinking, sentient being.

Fuck yeah replace those piece of shit office suite applications.

i do not think that this is cruel. the world is changing and technology evolves.
if for some reason the programming job we know today does not exist anymore there will be other jobs.

the question is:
what if we come to a state where there is no need to work at all for all human beings?

We are a looong way off having AI that can produce robust sustainable code with zero human input.

Like decades at LEAST. (I’ll check back in 5 years to see how well this comment aged lol).

The only AI we currently have is Narrow Intelligence. It can perform one pre-defined task better than most humans.
Its ability to do that though depends largely on years worth of historical (human) data.

In order for an AI to produce code the same way we do, it would need to acheive General Intelligence. We have not yet managed to produce such an AI and may not for many years. And even once we do it will be a long time before its smart enough to understand and write code to solve general problems that havent been pre-programmed into it.

We'd just find something else to do.

@jespersh AI is already optimizing AI models. Sure it will be fine 🤷‍♂️

Good news! There is hardly any good code to train an AI with.

@C0D4 don’t wanna be grammar nazi but...

That's good. We will be free from coding and have more interesting thing to do. Do you even know that in the past, there was a job called awakener, who awake you up every morning because at that time. It was almost the only way.
When the personal clock was invented. They also feel the fear of being jobless like you do.

I eagerly await SkyNet and the end of this painful idiocracy.

If robots would do everything that humans do, humanity would be bored af. Not everyone wants to play games, watch tv and other stuff their entire life.

New people like me looking at this post like 😳😳😳.

But imagine debugging AI code and how awful it would be

@aviophile Siri had a stroke and can no longer determine the difference between their, they're and there anymore 😅

I blame social leaning models, she's been reading way to many teenage messages again.

You don't need a job, you need goods and services. The fact that you currently get these for money and you get money for work is merely a product of our social system, founded on the assumption that nothing can be created without human labor. As this becomes less and less true, developed social states will be able to provide their citizens with more and more products and services universally. By the time AI becomes good enough to think like a human (because developers interface with code and humans) social systems will look very different, since there are many products and services which even subhuman intelligence connected to appropriate hardware can provide.

Intelligence and wisdom are two different things. AI has intelligence and knowledge, developers have wisdom. There's no way to write a perfect code if you don't have a perfect understanding of people who need that code. And that's something AI can never learn, because there's nothing to learn. The world doesn't make sense, and neither do people. We take what we have, and we try to make sense of it, but that in turn changes the world and our expectations. Only by being a part of it as humans we can feel what the next change in our expectations might be and put that in our code, even though most of us will likely miss. Because if you give each person an apple, some will eat it whole, some will cut it and eat it, some will make juice, and someone will forget that juice in their kitchen for a week, try it after it ferments, and call it "cider". That's just how universe rolls.