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Coding Sucks Anyway – Matt Welsh on the End of Programming

5 pointsby mohonabout 2 years ago

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mtlmtlmtlmtlabout 2 years ago
I don&#x27;t care what his credentials are, this is just such a bad take.<p>He&#x27;s extrapolating current progress into full mastery far too uncritically. AI is famous for having &quot;long tail&quot; issues.<p>He has a startup in this space, so his &quot;expert opinion&quot; is inherently biased towards &quot;this thing I&#x27;m building is the bee&#x27;s knees!&quot;<p>Alignment for these systems is currently an unsolved problem. I&#x27;m not sure how he thinks this is a great idea.<p>His timeframe is delusional. It reeks of thinking from inside a SV startup bubble where you can Change The World(of California) in 3 years. There are huge swathes of the tech industry that don&#x27;t exist in this bubble and move much more slowly.
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necovekabout 2 years ago
Obviously, Matt believes this or he wouldn&#x27;t dedicate to a start-up in the field.<p>That does not make it true or likely.<p>As a counter point, since he believes code review is not going away, how is one going to become a great code reviewer?<p>My answer is by learning to be a good programmer <i>and</i> asking good questions. Code review is a discussion between two or more people with awareness of context, goals and reasons behind the code as is: it&#x27;s a collaboration.<p>But reviewing unknown code by unknown author requires such a tremendeous amount of work (and notably focus and concentration): that is so much harder without an ability to ask questions about reasons for each specific area of the code.