The hard bit of software engineering has always been “deeply understanding a problem well enough to implement a useful solution to it”.

The scary bit of people trying to AI away the programming part is that most rely on writing the software to understand the problem domain — remove that part and you truly do have YOLO driven development with badly thought out questions “generating” bad and kinda broken software.

@endocrimes

Neither artificial, nor intelligent by Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast, accessibility specialist and conference speaker from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer.Buy me a coffee Follow @hdv on Mastodon
Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools based on them (like ChatGPT) are all some in tech talk about today. I struggle with the optimism I see from businesses, the haphazard deployment of these systems and the seemingly ever-expanding boundaries of what we are prepared to call “artificially intelli...