alt Hacker NewsI believe that anyone who says that writing code is no longer needed, was probably not a very good coder to begin with. I have seen what the best models can do, and I've seen what people call "good", and I am not impressed.
However, I'm still split. Because this could mean that we see a jump in code quality, due to bad coders getting someone better to code for them. But we could see a decrease in code quality, due to less people "caring".
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Code written by not very good coders has the possibility to be short and to the point. Even if I think the architectural decisions are wrong, the code still communicates a motive and an understanding of the problem at hand. This is all lost with LLMs.
In my experience, it's very good at following standards, so good in a structured project. Not so much in a freeform project where things get out of hand pretty quick.
maybe so but most of the code produced is low quality, so what do we have to lose?
I'm curious, what language do you code in? I use Go for a high scale backend service at this point it is better at writing code for a jira ticket than most of my team.
There is still questions about if that jira ticket should have been written but from ticket to mergable PR it's better than me.
Most people I've seen saying coding is solved are ML engineers who write throw away code for running one-off experiments. If you can effectively "archive" code after getting the results you need, I can see why you would say coding is solved. Sustainment is a non issue.