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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

However, programmers will still be needed to guide AI toward productive solutions

So it would still be safe, they'd just be doing different work from what they do now. Same as how other advances in tech stacks made it so we do things differently now than 30 years ago.

People are very adaptable

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Indeed. Do people still use emacs to code, for example?

Technologies evolve. People coding today in COBOL or Fortran are few and far between (but very well compensated).

[–] RickRussell_CA@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do people still use emacs to code, for example?

Umm. Yes.

[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 5 points 1 year ago

No, all the cool kids use Vim.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah sure, i use Emacs to code. In evil mode. A lot of Emacs users use it to code. Why would you think otherwise?

[–] sfera@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do people still use emacs to code, for example?

Sure. Why wouldn't they?

[–] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Hell yea we do use emacs!

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed. Do people still use emacs to code, for example?

Not sure if that's a serious question. Yes. They do. And many use it effectively. I use (neo)vim though because it works for me

[–] anlumo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's the key. I haven't written assembly code since the 1990s, I use higher-level abstractions to get to the goal more quickly now. AI-generated code is just yet another layer of abstraction away from machine language.