AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.
AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.

AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.

If you just let it do a full rewrite again and again, what protects against breaking changes in the API? Software doesn't exist in a vacuum, there might be other businesses or people using a certain API and relying on it. A breaking change could be as simple as the same endpoint now being named slightly differently.
So if you now start to mark every API method as "please no breaking changes for this" at what point do you need a full software developer again to take care of the AI?
I've also never seen AI modify an existing code base, it's always new code getting spit out (80% correct or so, it likes to hallucinate functions that don't even exist). Sure, for run of the mill templates you can use it, but even a developer who told me on here they rely heavily on ChatGPT said they need to verify all the code it spits out, because sometimes it's garbage.
In the end it's a damn language model that uses probability on what the next word should be. It's fantastic for what it does, but it has no consistent internal logic and the way it works it never will.
Yeah, I'm already quite content, if I know upfront that our customer's goal does not violate the laws of physics.
Obviously, there's also devs who code more run-of-the-mill stuff, like yet another business webpage, but those are still coded anew (and not just copy-pasted), because customers have different and complex requirements. So, even those are still quite a bit more complex than designing just any Gomoku game.
Haha, this is so true and I don't even work in IT. For me there's bonus points if the customer's initial idea is solvable within Euclidean geometry.
Now I am curious what the most outlandish request or goal has been so far?
Which is why plenty of companies merely pay lip service to it, or don’t do it at all and outsource it to ‘communities’