OpenAI's New LEAKED Coding Tool: The End Of Software Engineers

I'm a developer and I already treat o1 like a co-worker / sounding board, we're basically work besties

CEO's plan: fire everybody and use prompts to create things. The catch: who's going to buy their stuff when nobody else has a job?

Maybe programming was about all the friends we made along the way

2015: "learn to code." 2025: "Oops just kidding"

Another major problem this creates is that so you're only going to be hiring senior programmers, so no mid-level, no new ones, right? So aren't you going to basically shrink the amount of coders available to be employed?

There's an old soviet joke "My god if you build fridges that last forever who's gonna be employed to make fridges?" "The goal is so people don't have to build fridges comrade"

Anyone who thinks this leads to anything other than a dystopian nightmare hasn't been paying attention to the human race.

Robots to handle labor are not far behind. The ones pretending there will be millions more AI jobs are either very dumb or want to be labeled the one that ended humanity.

One reason this terrifies me is how quickly all the execs are looking at it as cheap labor. The models are crazy impressive for sure. They can build from scratch fast and do good work. They can even read legacy code and follow it reasonably well. But you couldn't convince me to trust them to handle legacy code changes reliably on their own for a long time. Even if you keep 20 percent of your devs and expect them to review everything you're asking the AI to do they won't be able to keep up. Business execs will think they know what needs to change. They do that today. But then when the devs get into the code they uncover all the stuff that they never considered and needed to. These models don't have that theory of mind to guess that the business side might need to know about this chunk of code they never mentioned. What will happen is they analyze it a while. Feel pressured by the rapid pace and competition. Then rush into using it. We WILL see major major issues with big companies in coming years. And by major, think a trillion dollars vanish into thin air and no records to rectify the mistake.

From Covid to this. It will just never end.