It will absolutely die out in that it will go back to what it was previously. We've been using "AI" for decades now, only it's better known under the name machine learning. This latest surge in interest is just a bunch of marketing hype and a bunch of executives too stupid to realize they're being fed a line of bullshit by contractors promising if they hire them to make an "AI" they'll be able to fire their entire workforce and dump their salaries into fat executive bonuses. Just like all the previous tech fads this will stop being the hot thing once enough of these douche-bags get burned and even the dumbest of them learns that no, you can't just replace your entire workforce with "AI" and call it a day.
The tools now are far better. You can slap together something useful with some basic Python knowledge. Hardest part is mixing up the data into giving you good results.
It'll hang around, but I don't think Nvidea's market cap is justified. It'll crash hard, but it could be tomorrow or three years from now.
I run a bunch of e-commerce businesses and am a freelance developer. LLMs have absolutely changed my workflow and what I can achieve. There is hype, sure, but underneath it are absurdly useful platforms that, for me at least, have replaced the need to hire digital marketers, copywriters and junior programmers. This is too useful to be called a fad and dismissed the way the metaverse or NFTs rightly have been.
How are you using it to replace junior programmers? What specifically?
I haven't found much besides tooling that answers questions (that are frequently right ENOUGH), write relatively small, targeted functions, add just a bit of IDE-embedded help, and...not much else.
...stuff that could speed up a few things, but nothing that would remotely replace even a junior developer
It will absolutely die out in that it will go back to what it was previously. We've been using "AI" for decades now, only it's better known under the name machine learning. This latest surge in interest is just a bunch of marketing hype and a bunch of executives too stupid to realize they're being fed a line of bullshit by contractors promising if they hire them to make an "AI" they'll be able to fire their entire workforce and dump their salaries into fat executive bonuses. Just like all the previous tech fads this will stop being the hot thing once enough of these douche-bags get burned and even the dumbest of them learns that no, you can't just replace your entire workforce with "AI" and call it a day.
The tools now are far better. You can slap together something useful with some basic Python knowledge. Hardest part is mixing up the data into giving you good results.
It'll hang around, but I don't think Nvidea's market cap is justified. It'll crash hard, but it could be tomorrow or three years from now.
I run a bunch of e-commerce businesses and am a freelance developer. LLMs have absolutely changed my workflow and what I can achieve. There is hype, sure, but underneath it are absurdly useful platforms that, for me at least, have replaced the need to hire digital marketers, copywriters and junior programmers. This is too useful to be called a fad and dismissed the way the metaverse or NFTs rightly have been.
How are you using it to replace junior programmers? What specifically?
I haven't found much besides tooling that answers questions (that are frequently right ENOUGH), write relatively small, targeted functions, add just a bit of IDE-embedded help, and...not much else.
...stuff that could speed up a few things, but nothing that would remotely replace even a junior developer