alt Hacker News> Currently; It's not good enough for the task.
If the answer is it's reassuring because it's not happening yet (with your proviso for if ever) then fine.
Doesn't sound very compelling to me but if that's the answer then fair enough.
> Currently; It's not good enough for the task.
If the answer is it's reassuring because it's not happening yet (with your proviso for if ever) then fine.
Doesn't sound very compelling to me but if that's the answer then fair enough.
mm. I could give a more proper answer. From the very short description of the original message, I don't doubt a long session with fable could get something up-and running even with the back-end integration. But if it needs to be maintained and trust-able in the long-run; or god-forbid sold to a costumer with any amount of accountability clause. Then there may be quite a bit of manual human labor involved.
Trust-able in particular is a growing issue i feel. Very polished looking AI made feature-rich software can have some atrocious bugs in the simplest of parts. Some features may not have been used at all since they were created. Testing never catches everything (even when written); humanity has probably been saved from countless billions of bugs from shower-thoughts of lunch discussions. (AI doesn't take showers). When AI made tests to verify AI made code based on the instructions of a single sleep deprived human using very fuzzy and ambiguous commutation media; can we trust that the software does what we expect it to do at all?
We had this discussion recently at work. "we spend X on our accounting and offer writing system; can we just replace it?". The answer was roughly; "yes, but would you trust it not to accidentally send us in an investigation with the IRS?". If we have to do it properly enough to trust, then AI ends up not being used for much more than user interface. (and that's still a glorified spreadsheet compared to most complex software systems). There is rather fascinating case of a UK cost tracking system convicting 900 sub-postmasters of theft (a few to prison and at-least one to self-inflicted death) over the span of 15 years because a software system was "perfect, tested, and not making any mistakes in its calculation"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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Not to say AI is useless or inconsequential; we're wasting a lot of time writing low-consequence boilerplate for UI, code interfaces, API schemas, error handling and data parsing. If they don't work we notice, so they're perfect for AI. But when a "project manager" makes a "prototype app"; it sounds a-lot like a interactive prototype in javascript for the UI; closer to a modern-day figma design than a functional product.