Stupid PM. Forgot to say the button needs to be corn-flower blue.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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AI can't replace programmers right now, but I've said all through my software dev career that our ultimate goal is to eliminate our jobs. Software will eventually be able to understand human language and think of all the right questions to ask to turn "Customer wants a button that does something" into an actual spec that generates fully usable code. It's just a matter of time. Mocking AI based on what it currently can't do is like mocking airplanes because of what they couldn't do in the 1920s.
I had a number of points to discuss, but they pale before this:
Software will eventually be able to understand human language
First, someone surely must have tried to code it, but I never heard of any system like that. Second and more important: anyone understands how we understand? And how the distance between understanding and communicating is covered? Someone? Anyone?
And before some smart person tries for the thousand's time this "but computers will get bettah" shit of argument: even with the whole task of putting it to code aside, we know shit about how we think, understand and speak, that's coming from me having Master's degree in linguistics
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Or like mocking Moon colonization in 1970
A highly respected school teacher of mine was known to say, "Say what you mean; mean what you say."
This is really one of the best advice about communication ever.
Yeah, I have a guess that it didn't even fullly understood the prompt behind this slop either...
How about... AI replaces government officials! A lot cheaper. Might actually get things right. And how could it fuck up any worse than what we have?
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Great! Software isn't bloated, convoluted, incomprehensible, fragile enough already!
The DWIM button.
Coming soon after the Neuralink implant.
Just wait until QA gets a hold of it