| ▲ | threethirtytwo a day ago | |
These software engineering analogies are getting tiresome. People are shouting “yeah the hard part was never writing code, it was managing complexity” as a sort of last hurrah before AI engulfs them. This is reality: not only can AI write code. It can manage complexity. Prompt: read the article in this thread then execute its principles on my codebase. Write a harness and programmatic procedures that will trigger you to respond with the articles philosophy to code changes. Be vigilant and monitor every aspect constantly. I would say for the above prompt, AI is about 60 to 70 percent as a good as a human now. A year ago it was 20 percent. The gap is closing. | ||
| ▲ | znnajdla a day ago | parent [-] | |
No the AI cannot. Did you even read the article? The principles in the article are not rules that can be applied or handed to a prompt. They are questions, not answers. Questions that are impossible to answer and that have no right answer except by human judgement in a concrete context. Even a human could not “manage complexity” if it’s not in the right context. This is not about AI vs. human capabilities. | ||