Comment by handfuloflight
Comment by handfuloflight a day ago
Will we be having these conversations for the next decade?
Comment by handfuloflight a day ago
Will we be having these conversations for the next decade?
Jokes on you. LLMs integrate into Emacs so seamlessly, you probably have no idea. I can ask LLMs to help me at any point, whether I'm writing some notes, sending a Slack message to a colleague, editing a comment in a codebase or a git commit message, or even when running shell commands. You can easily manipulate the context applied to the conversation, see the payload, repeat with variability, swap models anytime, call external tools, replace things in place, examine the diff of the changes, search through your prior conversations, etc.
The conversations will climb the ladder and narrow.
Eventually: well, but, the AI coding agent isn't better than a top 10%/5%/1% software developer.
And it'll be that the coding agents can't do narrow X thing better than a top tier specialist at that thing.
The skeptics will forever move the goal posts.
If the AI actually outperforms humans in the full context of the work, then no, we won't. It will be so much cheaper and faster that businesses won't have to argue at all. Those that adopt them will massively outcompetes those that don't.
However, assuming we are still having this conversation, that alone is proof to me that the AI is not that capable. We're several years into "replace all devs in six months." We will have to continue wait and see it try and do.
> If the AI actually outperforms humans in the full context of the work, then no, we won't. It will be so much cheaper and faster that businesses won't have to argue at all. Those that adopt them will massively outcompetes those that don't.
This. The dev's outcompeting by using AI today are too busy shipping, rather than wasting time writing blog posts about what ultimately, is a skill-issue.
It’s the new “I use Vim/Emacs/Ed over IDE”.