Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
trent shipley via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 6 Jun 2023 02:03:12 -0700 >*Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing >programming with AI. > >*Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI. > >*PHM:* No, replace programming itself. > >*P:* How? Why?

Re: Arizona is giving residents a free 10-day semiconductor technician course in anticipation of new Intel factories

2023-06-06 Thread Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss
This is a necessary program to fill the gap in semiconductor tech hiring. There are plenty of engineers to be had, but there is a chronic labor shortage across the entire industry for fab techs that know how to turn a wrench and work a voltmeter. This labor shortage has p

Re: I read chip maker TSMC is a sweatshop

2023-06-06 Thread Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss
I work at Intel as a process engineer, and while we struggle with work-life balance, TSMC takes it to a whole new level. You couldn't pay me enough to work for them even if I lost my job today, that is if I wanted to retain my marriage and ever see my kids again. -Ma

Re: I read chip maker TSMC is a sweatshop

2023-06-06 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Most Southeast Asian (SEA) countries' standards of work hours would horrify most Americans if applied, but same as there (likely) will be no canings here, labor laws tend to frown on mandating 60 hour work weeks. Of course they will frown on the lazy American's "only" working 40 hours a week, taki

I read chip maker TSMC is a sweatshop

2023-06-06 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Chip maker TSMC is moving to chandler and I have read they are a sweatshop --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pl

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
This is a DANGER ZONE that should be avoided right now, IMHO. Look at the world today: we have this political system that has gone haywire and media outlets that hand anybody a microphone and five minutes to spout off anything they want without fact-checking it or even taking any responsibility

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss
When I'm actually an expert at the thing I ask chatGPT for, yeah, like an intern. It'll say something that will prompt me to go down some road or other, and I ignore the obviously wrong answers. When I'm an amateur at the thing, it sounds authoritative and I don't have the ability to know better.

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
My experience so far is … ChatGPT is great if treated like I’ve got access to an intern to help with grunt work. The quality is about the same, it’s a lot faster than an intern would take, and it doesn’t complain if you tell it to try a different approach. If you just hit the ‘regenerate’ butto

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
Yeah given where these things are with put-one-word-after-another LLM's and image generators, I don't see it as being too taxing to make an AI which could generate passable static web sites for mom n' pop restaurants. Make it run a 100 examples and the top dozen will rival human work. Playing th

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread Andrew McRobb via PLUG-discuss
I don't think AI can completely replace programmers. I see it as a tool. Nothing more (at least at this time). It's going to be extremely lacking in any context on what the job entails. A manager can't simply go in and type "please make me a good looking website that's going to replace Facebook. No

Re: Arizona is giving residents a free 10-day semiconductor technician course in anticipation of new Intel factories

2023-06-06 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
That’s awesome. I wish I was still in Arizona. On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 1:55 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Came across this last night. > > > https://www.pcgamer.com/arizona-is-giving-residents-a-free-10-day-semiconductor-technician-course-in-anticipati

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I think the scripters are vulnerable, however the compSci folks will be the ones creating apps that create apps. On 2023-06-06 09:40, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm saying it doesn't write code. It doesn't have to. Business wants results with minimally acceptable quality. You bui

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
I'm saying it doesn't write code. It doesn't have to. Business wants results with minimally acceptable quality. You build the AI. You train the AI. You get minimally acceptable results. You tinker with the AI if desired. But the AI does not deliver code. It delivers useful results within st

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss
Try copilot and see all the wonderful ways you've never thought of to make terrible code even if it passes tests. Programming the AI to write ok code is harder than writing the code right now. I'm all for the AI stuff. It's great as a convenient method to google, etc. And codefill is... eh. If

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
We are worried about AI learning to do programming and taking over programming jobs. Modern AI doesn't produce code, it makes writing a lot of code unnecessary. It may not be that programmers become obsolete but that coding as we know it now becomes obsolete. On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:25 AM Micha

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I've seen this movie before it was the Firestone tire issue about 30 years ago. On 2023-06-06 02:03, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote: Pointy haired manager to programmer: We are thinking of replacing programming with AI. Programmer: Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers wi

Re: The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I don't get it... On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 5:03 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > *Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing > programming with AI. > > *Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI. > > *P

The end of programming (not the replacement of programmers)

2023-06-06 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
*Pointy haired manager to programmer:* We are thinking of replacing programming with AI. *Programmer:* Don't you mean you plan to replace programmers with AI. *PHM:* No, replace programming itself. *P:* How? Why? *PHM: * Well, the Big, Poorly Understood AI produces really good results witho