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GeneralRe: Technology is saving you from profound levels of boredom and it's a problem Pin
obermd30-Dec-22 4:08
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Matt Bond8-Feb-23 3:44
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NewsWho has plans for making a "The end is nigh" placard? Pin
PIEBALDconsult29-Dec-22 7:41
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Gary R. Wheeler30-Dec-22 3:56
Gary R. Wheeler30-Dec-22 3:56 
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I believe the conventional idea of "writing a program" is headed for extinction, and indeed, for all but very specialized applications, most software, as we know it, will be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmed.
-- The End of Programming | January 2023 | Communications of the ACM[^]
This might be the foolishness of age, but I don't believe current AI/ML techniques are anywhere close to approximating the ability of even typical programmers, much less domain-expert engineers. AI/ML is limited by the data used to train the model. It can derive problem solutions based upon that model data, but can not synthesize new solutions in the same manner as a human being. For some problem domains this limitation might be acceptable. As a general rule, it is not.
Software Zen: delete this;

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