alt Hacker NewsWhy hasn't it gone away already? ChatGPT at least has been around for over 3 years.
Why is my AI-first colleage constantly having to get more expensive AI subscriptions approved?
>most furniture is made in a factory now
Terrible analogy. Software is not like a mass-produced item - it is written significantly less often than it is executed!
You could say that AI will allow many more variations of softwares to be written in the same time frame, but I'm still sure I can produce quality output in a competitive time.
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Also a lot of software should be small. The only reason they aren’t (especially web) is because the trend is to bring in frameworks instead of using libraries. I spend more times tweaking code than adding features. The time spent on coding is way smaller than the time spent discussing about those tweaks
ChatGPT didn't have your whole codebase in context, the ability to automatically pull and push information to JIRA to plan code changes, and the ability to break your problems down into manageable pieces and sub-divide them among a fleet of sub-agents.
Developers didn't yet have the "Ask -> Plan -> Implement -> Review" workflow that results in the best agent-written code.
Now the tools and developers do and it works incredibly well.