Glenn Fleishman on Nostr: I really like Farhad Manjoo and his writing but I feel there is a gaping hole in his ...
I really like Farhad Manjoo and his writing but I feel there is a gaping hole in his essay today about programming and AI:
* LLMs will remain derivative, thus all code generated will rely on previously written code *available* to the AI; variants of future open-source licenses will block LLMs
* Not all problems have been solved before
* Understanding, debugging, and improving LLM-based code requires the same skills as programming
However…
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/opinion/ai-coding.html?unlocked_article_code=vxr8wc6x_afIFIbowPH-blokeFGozNWu3fA8TedirPMTO2hZeZhJLm8yO_fc4Q4lipy0XdRAgjIOjgKs1CpgW7GyTBCUPbA9-_S0hscn-1-Y8lTOQBs0iJxqMvEQgm9kOEdq41v80XJlevjLs-faxWm9yp3InAfQXVcfCvl6VR8vVz5LhIK5BZkg_e_xH-dIhQHdkOO6xQ4BOoc4vqItT2UbFSX6i0VdX9fixp6oiaimqfMB5BuhqphyGsgE8g7r-UBx4WRIT3vgakvpKror61-sthz9hk4z5xqSQBqQctOnJHPGP9SztuIt_UFHu8du&smid=url-share
* LLMs will remain derivative, thus all code generated will rely on previously written code *available* to the AI; variants of future open-source licenses will block LLMs
* Not all problems have been solved before
* Understanding, debugging, and improving LLM-based code requires the same skills as programming
However…
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/opinion/ai-coding.html?unlocked_article_code=vxr8wc6x_afIFIbowPH-blokeFGozNWu3fA8TedirPMTO2hZeZhJLm8yO_fc4Q4lipy0XdRAgjIOjgKs1CpgW7GyTBCUPbA9-_S0hscn-1-Y8lTOQBs0iJxqMvEQgm9kOEdq41v80XJlevjLs-faxWm9yp3InAfQXVcfCvl6VR8vVz5LhIK5BZkg_e_xH-dIhQHdkOO6xQ4BOoc4vqItT2UbFSX6i0VdX9fixp6oiaimqfMB5BuhqphyGsgE8g7r-UBx4WRIT3vgakvpKror61-sthz9hk4z5xqSQBqQctOnJHPGP9SztuIt_UFHu8du&smid=url-share